ACCA Strategic Professional · Strategic Business Leader · Managing strategic change
Harbourline Logistics plans a major restructuring. Before choosing an approach, the CEO uses Balogun and Hope Hailey's Change Kaleidoscope to review ten contextual features of the organisation, such as time, scope, preservation, diversity and capability. What is the main purpose of this analysis?
The Change Kaleidoscope is used to diagnose the organisation's context across ten features so that an appropriate change path and implementation approach can be designed. It does not appraise financial returns, assess individual resistance stages or analyse industry competition.
- ATo diagnose the organisation's context so that a suitable change path and style can be designedCorrect
- BTo calculate the financial return on the restructuring programme
- CTo identify the stage of resistance reached by individual employees
- DTo rank competitors according to Porter's five forces
Explanation
The Kaleidoscope is a context analysis tool. Its ten features show what constraints and enablers exist, which informs the choice of change path, start point, style, target, levers and roles. It is not a financial appraisal, a resistance-stage tool or an industry analysis tool.
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