ACCA Strategic Professional · Strategic Business Leader · Managing strategic change
Harbourview Logistics plans to restructure its depots. Before choosing an approach, the change manager uses Balogun and Hope Hailey's Change Kaleidoscope to assess the organisation's situation. Which of the following correctly describes what the Kaleidoscope's context analysis is mainly designed to do?
The Change Kaleidoscope's context analysis identifies contextual features such as time, scope, preservation and capability. These shape which change design choices suit the organisation. It is not a financial appraisal tool, a stakeholder power-interest grid or an emotional change curve.
- AIdentify the contextual features, such as time, scope, preservation and capability, that shape the design choices for changeCorrect
- BCalculate the financial return that the change programme is expected to deliver to shareholders
- CRank the stakeholders by their power and interest so that they can be managed appropriately
- DIdentify the stages that individuals pass through emotionally when they experience change
Explanation
The Change Kaleidoscope examines the context of change using features such as time, scale, preservation, diversity, capability, capacity, readiness and power. These features then guide the choice of design options. Stakeholder ranking relates to Mendelow's matrix, and emotional stages relate to change curve models.
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