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Change Models
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Simply, those models for action which have been used to
successfully change processes or organizations.
The best model for a particular change program must have some features
that are deeply imbedded in the current state and current culture.
Otherwise, the change will not take root.
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Reengineering
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Rebuilding the process by leveraging dramatic change in supporting
technologies.
Michael Hammer used the rapid advances in computer technology to
argue for massive reengineering of most organizations and business processes.
[M Hammer, J Champy, Reengineering the Corporation. Wiley:1993.]
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Process Redesign
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Changing the process by seizing ‘internal’
opportunities that occur within the existing process.
The business grows and can afford more specialization. The
resources contract, so the process must be simplified, simply to work.
Changes in other processes change the boundaries between processes.
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Continuous Improvement
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Improving the process by analyzing the existing practice
for problems or barriers and overcoming them with incremental changes.
W. Edwards Deming and J. M. Juran used continuous Improvement as
the principal change mechanism in the Total Quality Management movement
of the 1980's.
[W E Deming, Out of the Crisis. M.I.T.:1982]
[J M Juran, Juran on Leadership for Quality: An Executive Handbook.
Free Press:1989]
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Increasing-
Returns Economics
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"The rich get richer."
A market dynamic where those who are ahead, tend to get further ahead.
Usually up-front costs are significant compared to production costs so
unit cost declines with increased sales. Newcomers and small volume producers
have more and more difficulty as the market matures.
[see Arthur, W. Brian. "Increasing Returns and the New World of Business",
Seeing Differently: Insights on Innovation, JS Brown (ed) [Harvard: 1997],
p. 3.]
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Network Effect
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"The more, the merrier."
A market dynamic where each additional unit put into use enhances
the value of all previously deployed units.
The classic example was the telephone. A single telephone would
have been utterly useless. So Alexander Graham Bell built two and
initiated the first 9-1-1 call, "Watson, come here. I need you."
Soon everybody needed a telephone.
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