Part 3: Diagnosing the Change (Due Week 4)
Select a Diagnostic Model (see Chapter Five) that you utilize to
review aspects of change activities and actions that have been taken by the
companies chosen. Here we are looking at the “parts” of the companies as well
as their strategies, as surmised by your research in Part 1. It is acknowledged
that this information will not be complete, as you are looking at these
companies as an outsider; but a thoroughly researched paper will give enough
data to allow some (well-defended) assumptions on your part.
Here’s what to do:
1. Choose
one Diagnostic Model (i.e. 6-box, 7S, congruence, or etc.) to apply to the two
chosen companies. Choose the model which you feel best identifies and measures
the relevant aspects of the organization’s performance and therefore the
diagnostic choices made will affect your findings.
2. Apply
the data obtained in your research through an analysis of the appropriate
chosen model. This will allow you to create a diagnosis of where each company
is today (as per the criteria of the model).
3. Create
a SWOT Analysis for each of the two chosen companies change plans/programs,
utilizing information obtained in the diagnosis. (Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities, Threats.)
4. Compare
the two company analyses to each other and offer your perspective (value
judgment) of the effectiveness of the changes made to date in each case.
5. Identify
potential areas of resistance that may occur and at least one strategy to
respond to each. (This will most likely come from your Weaknesses/Threats
section of your SWOT. If not, take another look at your SWOT.)
6. Recommendations
for further actions within the organizations and the rationale chosen for these
recommendations.
7. Write
your paper including each of the above sections, and analyses





