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Business Definition for: Change Agent
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- Leading CIOs Stepping Up to Play Change-Agent Role, According to META Group; The Evolving Role of the CIO — Creating Business Value in an Era of Rapid Change
- STAMFORD, Conn. -- Study Identifies Change-Agent Risks and Rewards; Provides Recommendations for CIOs
- Research articles 2005-01-25
- Building An Effective Change Agent Team
- A carefully constructed change agent program is essential to any successful operational transformation. When a company attempts a transformation focused on its operations, a sound plan and a robust execution strategy are not necessarily enough. Another important factor in the success of this type of initiative - involving everything from...
- White papers 2007-10-26
- The Business Analyst as Change Agent; Washington Mutual Participates in iRise's March 16 Web Seminar on Driving Innovation for Competitive Advantage
- EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- iRiseR the world's leading application definition software and services company, today announced another in a series of Web seminars tailored to the needs of the Business Analyst BA community titled, "The Business Analyst as Change Agent: How to Drive Innovation for Competitive Advantage." The discussion will...
- Research articles 2006-03-14
- Change Agents In Technology Transfer
- This article highlights some of the major considerations, which are essential for technology transfer. These considerations include: to increase awareness of the importance of the human element in the process of change, to describe the wide range of activities appropriate to change agents, to outline the personal and professional skills...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Managing Change
- Change, as they say, is the only certainty. Yet most people seek constancy, and struggle continuously to prevent, or adjust to change. At best, these people arrive at a place of "dynamic equilibrium" where the ebbs and flows of life do not result in radical change but allow them to...
- Articles 2007-11-09
- Tilting At Windmills: Change Agents In Business
- The modern business environment is subject to perennial change. An organization, to align itself to the environmental change, constantly undergoes changes. A change agent is an individual who acts as the catalyst for the organizational change. The paper, first in a three-part series, examines change, change management, and change agents....
- White papers 2003-02-04
- The CEO's New Rules for Driving Strategic Change
- Most of us have lived long enough corporate lives to recognize this scenario. CEO announces sweeping strategy shift for company. Managers and employees buy in enthusiastically -- everyone is on board! And the result is... Nothing. Change doesn't take hold....
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- Change Agent
- Weaver has served in government for nearly 28 years, 21 of those years in the Secret Service. He currently holds the position of deputy special agent in charge of the Secret Service's Financial Crimes Division and is also the founder and head of the New York Electronic Crimes Task Force,...
- Research articles 2003-07-01
- Developing Black Belt Change Agents
- The role of a Black Belt is typically described as a Change Agent and the two terms are frequently used interchangeably. Today, understanding what tool is applicable and interpretation of the output of the analysis are pretty rudimentary. The software companies have chased away all the "mathematical boogie men." The...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Change Agent - Issue 31
- In the face of change, the competent are helpless. Change means a temporary or permanent threat to their competence. However, among the competent, the smart ones realize that change is inevitable, that shift happens -- and thus those they are doomed. Hence, there is a tremendous discomfort among our happily...
- White papers 2000-01-01
- How To Align Change Strategy With Organizational Personality
- Countless change agents and other organizational interventionists fail to achieve desired results because they ignore or are unaware of the need to closely align change strategy with organizational personality. Not every change strategy, design, delivery method, or activity is right for your organization. Your ability to partner with your coworkers...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- A Case Study of Emergent and Intentional Organizational Change: Some Implications for Customer Relationship Management Success
- The shift from a product-oriented business strategy to a customer-focused one has been a major change agent in companies recently. Many companies have invested heavily in technologies enabling a customer focused relationship marketing strategy. However, there are mixed results as to how successful firms have been in implementing customer relationship...
- White papers 2003-12-08
- Diary of A Change Agent
- You don't have to be a CEO to create an environment that supports action. You just need a flair for imaginative networking. Article explains how changes effect the working environment that leads to some small epiphany or innovation, often with implications for the future of the entire company. It...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- What Makes A Good Manager Of Change?
- From the executive summary: ‘A change agent cannot succeed without great persistence. Change is a complex and laborious process that arouses strong feelings and emotions. Angry people, frustrated teammates, conflicting priorities, unforeseen problems or behind-the-scene resistance pose daily challenges. A project manager cannot lead her team through these minefields without...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Leading Change Versus Managing Care: The Role of Change Agent in Family Medicine
- As we enter the new century, family medicine finds itself at a crossroads of new opportunities and threats that could radically change the way it is practiced. With such uncertainty comes the need for focus on a clear understanding of the values and principles most important as a discipline and...
- White papers 2001-02-01
- DoD Change Acceleration and Knowledge Management Efforts Highlighted at December Summit
- Highlighted at December summit Change Agent Leaders from across the Defense Departments acquisition, technology and logistics community, as well as other federal agencies and commercial industry converged on Fort Belvoir, Va, Dec. 15, 2000, for the first DoD Change Management Summit and Training Session. The Summit demonstrated how...
- Research articles 2001-01-01
- 20/20 Change Agent
- Article explains that ability to focus to zoom in on the initiatives that would propel the company toward its goals, to put a wide-angle lens on the big picture, to stay alert to anything that might blindside the effort. Fresh from the front lines of transformation effort, shared his four-point...
- White papers 1999-12-01
- Change Agent - Issue 32
- Rifting is a big tear in the fabric of the rules that we live by. It is a fundamental change in the game, one that creates a bunch of new losers -- and a handful of new winners. However, sometimes a rift is not a rift at all and is...
- White papers 2000-03-01
- TENNECO AUTOMOTIVE INC - Tenneco Announces Change of Transfer Agent, Rights Agent.
- Tenneco Announces Change of Transfer Agent and Rights Agent LONDON, Nov. 14 -- Tenneco Inc. announced that the company has changed the transfer agent of its common stock and the rights agent under the company's Rights Agreement to Well ...
- Research articles 2006-11-14
- Joining the Free Agent Nation
- With the millions of people who have been let go by large corporations—and the insecurity generated, even among employees who were retained—many people have seriously weighed the prospect of starting their own business. As About.com cleverly put it, why not move from pink slips to deposit slips? At the beginning,...
- Articles 2007-02-28
