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Ardent Foods wants to change from a family-run business to a professionally managed group. Context analysis shows low diversity of views, ample time, high capacity for change among staff, and strong power concentrated with the founder who supports the plan. A consultant argues that because the context is favourable, the change path can be chosen without considering the design choices of start point and target. Which view is most consistent with the Kaleidoscope approach?

The consultant is wrong. In the Change Kaleidoscope, context analysis informs the design choices such as path, start point, style, target, levers and roles, which still have to be made even in a favourable context. The model guides judgement rather than prescribing a single path.

  1. AThe consultant is wrong because the context analysis feeds the design choices of path, start point, style, target, levers and roles, which must still be decidedCorrect
  2. BThe consultant is right because a favourable context removes the need for design choices
  3. CThe consultant is right because design choices apply only in crisis situations
  4. DThe consultant is wrong because the Kaleidoscope prescribes one correct path for each context

Explanation

The Kaleidoscope has two parts: contextual features and design choices. Context shapes, but does not replace, the design choices. It is not a prescriptive model that dictates one path, so the last option is also incorrect.

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