International Change Management

International Change Management - A Project-based Leadership ApproachCompanies must continually be able to develop their products in line with a sharpened global competition and an ever faster technological change process. Meeting such challenges demands a deft leadership approach based on readiness to carry out changes in the organization, while at the same time being able to carry out still more detailed and solid planning and implementation. This entails difficult dilemmas in the leadership of change management processes, which this book provides keys to solving.When faced with such dilemmas, companies and organizations tend to resort to a project- and team-based leadership approach. This requires skills in handling cultural gaps, greater risk challenges, and new ways of knowledge, bringing transformation management to the forefront. The reader will learn how to anchor strategic international change by effective management tools and will be provided with timely business implementation roadmaps in an uncertain globalized world.The book's review of international change management is built around these main themes:Part 1. Managing cross-cultural stakeholder complexities in a change processPart 2. Aligning international change into the strategic goals of the companyPart 3. Strategy choices in a change project and performance managementPart 4. International project risk management and uncertainty managementPart 5. Effective planning and calibrated organization of change projectsPart 6. Optimal combinations of change project implementation toolsPart 7. Change Leadership Roles and Innovative Transformation ManagementPart 8. Cross-cultural communication for co-operation and problem solvingPart 9. Change project completion and sustainable learning from changeThis book is particularly well-suited for readers who want to think out of the box, in how to handle unique challenges facing a company or organization in a real-life situation. Thus the book emboldens the reader to test a set of mutually connected models and tools in assessing whether international change is integrated into the core competences of the organization, and ultimately to what extent the company can fulfill its strategic goals.Third Edition