Overview
Week 3discussion Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
- As you contemplate starting a new business, how do you determine if there is a genuine need for your product or service?
- Based on the need Ngozi Opara has identified, do you feel her business will be sustainable in the long run? Why or why not?
- Do you feel the hydration product Allen Lim has introduced will continue to meet the need of his target market over time? Why or why not?
- What is the best test to confirm that people need and want your product?
week 5 discussion Change is a difficult thing to navigate for many people and many organizations, but change is needed to grow. Employees and employers alike need managers to support change and go beyond accepting it to normalize change.
Discuss strategies managers can use for creating positive, organizational change with their teams. How does collaboration influence positive organizational change? Provide an example scenario to illustrate the implementation of one strategy.
week 5 assignment
To prepare for the Week 6 Assessment, you will complete an organizational change chart, like you did in Week 1, only this time for a well-known multi-national corporation.
Choose an organization such as Samsung, Starbucks, Ford Motor Company, or Waste Management that implemented a major change. For example, a sustainability initiative at Starbucks or Apple making FaceTime available to non-Apple users.
Analyze the organization’s change process based on Kotter’s 8 Steps to Leading Change using the Organizational Change Chart. Make sure to complete a new analysis, do not copy any information from a previous week. (Uploaded)
Consider questions such as the following as you complete your analysis:
- Do you think this was a positive organizational change? Why or why not?
- What strategies and tactics do you think would be effective in creating positive organizational change?
- What strategies and tactics might have worked better?