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Meridian Business School

Extended Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership (EDSML)

QCF Level 7: Strategic Change Management

Assignment

Strategic Change Management

Submitted By: Jiji Mukund

Student ID No: 3261

Submitted To: Mr Hakeem Kazeem

Table of Contents

LO 1.1 Discuss and evaluate the relevance of models of strategic change management.

LO 1.2 Assess the value of using strategic intervention techniques in organisations.

LO 2.1 Examine the need for strategic change in an organisation.

LO 2.2 Assess the factors that are driving the need for strategic change in an organisation.

References

LO 1.1 Discuss and evaluate the relevance of models of strategic change to organisations in the current economy.

Organizations, their strategies, their structures and the management of them become ever more

complex. Among the reasons for this are the increasing turbulence and propensity to change in the business environment, and the tendency for multiproduct multinational organizations to become common place (Pollard, 2000).

Strategic change management is concerned with the actions that organizations take to deal with the changes, opportunities, threats, challenges and surprises in their external and internal environments. Strategy is about how an organization sets about getting to where it wants to get it is about setting, pursuing and achieving its mission and objectives. In the early stages of a company’s development, this is usually straightforward – it is not difficult for everyone concerned to appreciate the desired end points and the routes forward (Idenburg, 1998).

The strategic model provides an explanation of an organization’s ‘recipe for success’ and it contains those factors that essentially define the business. Organisation follows certain models as a aspect of strategy which are as follows:

Cyert and March’s behavioural theory

Cyert and March’s A Behavioural Theory of the Firm (1963). Cyert and March argue...