CS Business Integration Plan: Diagnosis and Intervention Plan
The purpose of this project is to give your team an opportunity to put all your learnings in this class into ‘theory to practice’ mode and application. In essence, your team will act as consultants to a firm internal to your team (i.e. a firm where a group member is employed and is facing a CS dilemma). Following all of the concepts, theories, and overarching themes learned and discussed in this class,your team is asked to conduct an organizational diagnosis of the chosen firm.
The focus of the diagnosis should be to determine where the organization lies on the sustainability continuum described by Benn et al(2019): rejection, non-responsiveness, compliance, efficiency, strategic proactivity,and sustaining. The team should gather evidence to support their diagnosis, including company reports, interviews with management, and descriptions of the company as described in the business press. The firm your team chooses can be external to the group, or internal if one of the group members is employed there.
The second part of the assignment is to design an intervention to take the organization to the next level (e.g., from compliance to efficiency, or beyond). How would you guide the organization through the change process? (draw here both from Benn et al., 2019; and Spector 2013)Teams should identify which models of change or transformation would best help the organization’s overall movement toward sustainability, and then use this plan to create a roadmap for change. This roadmap should be a visual depiction of the plan that you can share with the people who will be involved in making the change happen.
Teams should analyze the forces that may contribute to the organization’s evolutionary (incremental) and/or revolutionary (transformational) path of change, as well as the forces that may work against the change (e.g., what are the barriers? Where do you expect resistance to change?). Your diagnosis and change intervention should include recommendations for making the change “stick.”
CS Integration: Recommendation(s) and Organizational Change Plan (4-6 pages): what course of action does your group recommend that the organization take? What and who will need to change? What is your recommended implementation plan (timing, targets, tactics)? Is this a major change from the current ways of working? Are you recommending incremental changes or transformational changes? These will be your CS applications from Benn et al XXXXXXXXXXWhat recommendations do you offer to raise its gender equality, ethics and inclusive programs? Who (female) do you recommend to be on their corporate board?
You will need to also draw from Spector's XXXXXXXXXXtheories of organizational change and 'theory to practice' narratives to support your actual change in business model for the firm. How would you guide the organization through the change process? Which model of change or transformation would best help the organization’s (or sub-unit’s) movement toward sustainability?
Be sure to use this plan to create a roadmap for change. This roadmap should include a visual depiction of the plan that you can share with the people who will be involved in making the change happen. Include a discussion of the forces that may contribute to the organization’s evolutionary (incremental) and/or revolutionary (transformational) path of change, as well as the forces that may work against the change (e.g., What are the barriers? Where do you expect resistance to change? How do you plan to deal with it?). Be sure to include recommendations for making the change “stick.”