The Information Age has ushered in a whole new competitive virtual marketplace for traditional brick-and-mortar organizations to compete with in the tough competitive global markets of the 21st century economy. The ability of virtual organizations to easily advertise and market their products through the internet and social medias have created a potentially limitless clientele through the utilization of a mass mediated approach that has historically been unavailable to traditional brick-and-mortar organizations.
Rapidly changing markets have created volatile rivalries for competitive market-shares inspiring organizations to scramble to create rapid organizational changes in order to remain competitive meeting stakeholder preferences, as well as forecasting market trends and demands in an international marketplace.
Both virtual and brick-and-mortar organizations must utilize complex adaptive change systems to learn new organizational practices that will enable organizations to adapt and improve making them competitive in the evolutionary marketplace of modern society. Organizations that have enough organizational flexibility to successfully implement and incorporate strategic change into their organizational environments by implementing sustainable continuous improvement programs that have the ability to transform unforeseen problems into opportunities to thrive, will ensure long-term organizational success (Williams-Atwood, 2011).
Virtual Organizations vs. Brick-and-Mortar
Often, members of brick-and-mortar organizations have the opportunity to build a bonding atmosphere of community. Johnston (2006) defined community as acknowledging organizational members as being in a relationship with one another. Communities work be...
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The main focus of Block’s book is to “create a more positive and connected future for our communities, we must be willing to trade their problems for their possibilities.” The first chapter begins by laying out the format of the text and the multiple authors and their thoughts that Block will draw on to explain how to create and maintain healthy community. Block then goes on to discuss the importance of context within the community or the “fabric” of the community. Blocks makes it a point to discuss John McKnight’s three insights within a community: gifts, associational life, and community member power. Essentially, the context
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Saving money takes time and sensible planning. As an online business owner saving money leads to further funds for the business. Both forms of shopping have their own positives and negatives. With careful research, there are many deals to find when combing both brick and mortar and online shopping.
Change is the process of making things different. As trends change, the way that an organization conducts business is also subject to change. The pace which organizations experience change has been accelerating as economic changes fluctuate and technology changes continue to advance. As changes progress, “organizations will be forced to change in a way for which there has been no precedent” (O’Brien & Robertson, 2009, p. 371). Organizational leaders are pressed with the demands of change while continuing to hold the responsibility of ensuring that the organization reaches its goals of maximum productivity, leading to increased profits. Leadership strategies will be explored by this analysis. The major challenges managers face and the competencies needed to effectively complete their jobs will all be examined.
In today’s ever changing world people must adapt to change. If an organization wants to be successful or remain successful they must embrace change. This book helps us identify why people succeed and or fail at large scale change. A lot of companies have a problem with integrating change, The Heart of Change, outlines ways a company can integrate change. The text book Ivanceich’s Organizational Behavior and Kotter and Cohen’s The Heart of Change outlines how change can be a good thing within an organization. The Heart of Change introduces its readers to eight steps the authors feel are important in introducing a large scale organizational change. Today’s organizations have to deal with leadership change, change in the economy,
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“The successful management of change is accepted as a necessity in order to survive and succeed in today’s highly competitive and continuously evolving environment” (Luecke, 2003). Hypercompetition (D'aveni, 1994), categorised by disparity and unpredictability has become the environmental norm; aided by rapid technological advancements combined with the intensity of globalisation and increasing governmental regulation. The past 20 years has experienced a vast increase in expenditure on management advice (Collins, 2011) indicating the increasing level of difficulty that organisations are facing. Consequently, organisational change has been driven up the ladder of importance for organisations seeking competitiveness. This becomes further augmented when studies illustrate a ‘60-70% failure rate for organisational change projects; a statistic which has remained constant since the 1970′s’ (Ashkenas, 2014). The profound influence that change holds demonstrates the importance of an organisations ability to confirm where its future position lies (Todnem, 2005). Thereafter, the organisation must address which change management programme will successfully facilitate the transitional chapter of change.
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A key part of an organizational strategy is to identify market opportunities by finding a niche or a gap in the marketplace that they can pursue to take their company ahead of all their competitors. An organiz...
Organizations operate in a turbulent environment that forces them to change even against their will to do so. Every organization has a fair prediction of its future that is why they all spend time and resources to put in place strategic plans. More often they get challenged not to follow these plans because they fail to appreciate that change is a natural phenomenon which is intimately entwined with continuity and that change-continuity continuum is what defines organ...
The writer finds social media is important in her current organization, Modern Business Concepts, Incorporated (MBC). With small business organizations such as hers, social media is important in spreading information on who the company is and what they do. Also as a business-to-business sales and marketing company, spreading the word is important in gaining customers and potential employees. Ucok (2014) uses research and experiments to prove how social media is essential to marketing. These platforms were essential in Ucok’s research, resulting in higher response with marketing campaigns proving “the importance of social media in marketing strategy and communication” (Ucock, 2014, p. 95).
This literature review is part of an assessment for management unit MAN5010. It is also a personal commitment to pursue and familiarise myself with significant challenges faced by management today. The majority of business analysts acknowledged that business is becoming more uncertain as the future becomes more competitive (Furnham, 2000 cited in Senior & Swailes, 2010). In a globalised world, change is almost endless in organisation to be sustainable considering the vast competition brought about by both emerging and developed countries. To sustain competitiveness an organisation is required to manage its product and the markets demands, technological advancement and the fast change in many facet of the business (Santhidran, Chandran, & Borromeo, 2013).
For instance, Harley Davidson may be forced to change their marketing strategy due to the entrance of a new competitor into the market. Second, Harley Davidson has to learn new skills and technologies quickly. For example, technologies are changing rapidly, so it is crucial for Harley Davidson’s business plan to change or alter in order to keep up with innovation. Third, this organization has to effectively leverage its core competencies while competing with its competitors. This is, Flexibility is required for Harley Davidson to learn how to use primary value-chain activities and support functions in the way that allow the organization to produce their products at a lower cost with differentiated features compare to their competitors in the market
The idea of change is the most constant factor in business today and organisational change therefore plays a crucial role in this highly dynamic environment. It is defined as a company that is going through a transformation and is in a progressive step towards improving their existing capabilities. Organisational change is important as managers need to continue to commit and deliver today but must also think of changes that lie ahead tomorrow. This is a difficult task because management systems are design, and people are rewarded for stability. These two main factors will be discussed with reasons as to why organisational change is necessary for survival, but on the other hand why it is difficult to accomplish.