Cycle #1
Reading:
- Stone Finch, Inc.: Young Division, Old Division You only have to consider the actual cases for these template analyses.
- Leading Change: Why transformation efforts fail
- Managing Change: Winning hearts and minds
Who:
- Jim Billings; President and CEO of Stone Finch, Inc. Yes
Immediate Issue/Problem Being Faced
- A high number of employee resignations increasing will cost the organization to slow down in its growth,
Top of the three salespeople in water products division have resigned, and 8 others resigned from advancement in solutions due to the slow movement in the work environment, they should implement new training program for all division to keep up their division in the market and not be dropped from the market in the future.
- Jim Billings can create a committee on how to execute a strategy since he has a problems on to do so, this will the 2 divisions to stay well communicated with each other.
- Neither the founder and the son have senior management skills, create and enforce new training skills for senior management for new and existing employees,this will help the understanding of employees on how to manage in hard circumstances, also they will be updated with new skills than can be beneficial for the company and its growth.
- Having a men in the board of directors may lead to the limit of ideas and future growth of the company, having women in the board of directors representing 50% can be really beneficial to the decisions that the company will take, this can be done by sharing ideas from 2 different genders and be studied in depth to make good future decisions.
Clearly identifying the immediate issue/problem will help you identify viable alternatives. This should be a fairly focused answer; the immediate issue is usually pretty much given to you in the case. At the end, Billings asks himself several questions. These are all centred around the key problems he must deal with. This