Leading and Manage Organisational Change

This document provides insights on leading and managing organizational change. It discusses the challenges faced by Kodak, the need for change, impact, change requirements and objectives, external environment analysis, competitor analysis, major change requirements, cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis and mitigation strategies, communication plan, barriers and strategies to change, and the need for staff training. Course code: N/A, Course name: N/A, College/University: N/A

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Table of Contents
Task 1.........................................................................................................................................3
Question1................................................................................................................................3
Question2................................................................................................................................3
Question3................................................................................................................................4
Question 4...............................................................................................................................4
Question 5...............................................................................................................................4
Task 2.........................................................................................................................................5
1: Need for Change.................................................................................................................5
2: Impact.................................................................................................................................5
3: Change requirement and objectives...................................................................................5
4: External Environment Analysis..........................................................................................6
5: Competitor Analysis...........................................................................................................6
6: Major Change Requirement...............................................................................................6
7: Cost –Benefit Analysis.......................................................................................................6
8: Risk Analysis and Risk Mitigation Strategies....................................................................7
9: Communication Plan..........................................................................................................7

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10: Barriers and Strategies to change.....................................................................................7
11: Need for staff training......................................................................................................8
12: Strategies for Implementing Change................................................................................8
13: Main Resources................................................................................................................8
14: Role and Responsibilities of Team Members...................................................................8
15: Protocols and Rules of Team............................................................................................9
16: Team Dynamics and Delegation of Task.........................................................................9
Task3........................................................................................................................................10
Q1.........................................................................................................................................10
Q4.........................................................................................................................................10
Q5.........................................................................................................................................11
References................................................................................................................................12

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Task 1
Question1
The company Kodak faces the tough situation in the beginning of 21st century. As
comparison to the late 90s, the sales of the company for Equipment of traditional
photography were declined constantly. The main reason behind such) issue is rapid
development and growth of innovative digital technologies as well as fast switching of the
consumers to digital photography. Kodak faced such a big challenge though they have
decided to enter in the market f new digital; photography (Lucas and Goh, 2009). Such
market involves great competition as well as it is highly required for the company to
concentrate all their forces to gain the market share as well as profits. Kodak must able to
develop new product as well as business models in an extremely short time, differentiate
itself from the competition, build string brand image in the market novel market, control over
the cost through restructuring as well as optimizing, ensure the profits by low profit margin as
well as please the shareholders (Thomas and Kohli, 2009).
For the first half-decade of the new era, Kodak did well enough that it is well still common to
analyse the stores of Kodak as well as cameras. They have introduced full frame camera in
the year 2002 that gave them competitive advantage over other companies. Beginning in the
year 2005, the company has experienced drastic as well as unsustainable declines in the sales.
By 010 the company had laid off tens of thousands of employees and in 2012 their filed for
bankruptcy.
Therefore, the company did not have any driving forces behind the mass conversation to the
digital as well as did noting around the world for last two decades before releasing that their

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whole company majorly depends on their non-procrastinating that they had done exactly
since 1991 (Vecchiato and Roveda, 2010).
Question2
There are certain issues that are faced by Kodak. These are explained in below points to
understand in more effective manner.
 The company faced the major challenge is in the process of changing to the digital
technology in printing. As most of the consumers prefer to buy android phones of iOS
for camera that affected the growth and demand of the company at greater level.
 The company failed to establish their market share in the global market as well as
market leadership in the Digital sector due to low innovation introduced by the
company in the competitive market.
 It is threatened with either immediate or rapid diversification in the technology due to
high investment amount is needed and it would also be risky for the company to take
such steps to grow their business.
 The industry of photography equipments is also dominated by few leading companies
that have a huge market share in various industry segments (Walrave et al., 2018).
 The market of photography equipment is predicated as a commodity marker with
rapid growth, high competition, and good profit for leader but not for the followers.
Thus, innovation as well as product differentiation with association pricing plays an
essential role for the industry.
 There is huge number of different competitors in the market that are distributed in
various industry segments that give huge competition to the company which is one the
challenge faced by the company in such competitive market (Ho and Chen, 2018).

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Question3
The company stared facing the issues in the year 1984, at the time when Japanese film Fuji
Photo Film Co. invaded on the market share of Kodak as the consumers switched to their
products after launching a 400 speed colour film which was twenty percent cheaper than the
company.
Secondly, during the year 1980 Kodak failed to recognize the changes in the environment as
well as instead followed with sticked to a particularly business model that was no longer
valid for the post-digital age. At the time when the management of the company realise the
requirement of changes and react accordingly, the situation was not under their control as it
was too late to control or make any changes adopted by the company (Day and Schoemaker,
2016).
Question 4
There are certain potential barriers to change that are faced by the company constantly as
they are explained in below points:
 The company has faced difficulty in technology transitions due to the reason
constantly fluctuation in the market that affects the company at greater level.
 The company has invented the digital camera as well as yet through a combination of
failing to embrace their own creation, the over focus on competition with Fujifilm as
well as the fall in the sale of chemical photo, and the company is covering of their
former self.
 The company has faced the intense competition as with the most forms of the digital
hardware, the force of dominate were many players, low entry barriers, falling in the
real price as well as commoditisation.

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Question 5
There are certain strategies that company can adopt for change project. Such strategies are
explained in below points:
Creating Urgency
Proper analysis will be done, where the change is required in the company as there needs to
be compelling the case for change that would help them to clearly understand and inspired to
change.
Communicate the Vision
Communicate the changes in the organization with the staff and other employees to made
them clear the vision and mission of the company that would force the employees to achieve
the targeted goals of the company in more effective manner.
Remove the Obstacles
As an individual work towards the implementing changes, they will face physical and
emotional obstacles; therefore the management is required to overcome from these blocks by
listing to their concern as well as seeking their feedback.
Create Short-term Wins
Short-term goal will be set up to achieve long-term goal that would give an opportunity to the
company to overcome the issues by taking proper and effective steps (Casey, Ribaux and
Roux, 2019).

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Task 2
1: Need for Change
The main reasons of adopting change management are explained in below points:
 Business opportunities: there is some of the business opportunities that can be adopted
by the organization such as new technology, enhance the demand of innovative
products.
 Management Decision: the management of the company has made several policies but
they were failed to take an appropriate decisions to implement such policies that are
the main barriers in between attaining the objectives.
 Competition: There are huge competitions in the market that force the company to
adopt change project.
2: Impact
There would be great impact of adopting change management as they are explained in below
pints:
Cope up the performance gap: The Company would able to cope up from the gap they have
faced in their business in more effective and efficient manner.
Compete in the Market: The Company would able to compete in such competitive with the
help of adopting change project in their business.
Achieve targeted objective: the company would able to achieve targeted objective by
adopting change management in their organization.

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3: Change requirement and objectives
The places where change is required in the organization are:
 There is requirement of restructuring of new leadership as well as change in the
culture
 The rapid growth or decline affects the structure as well as performance of the
employees
 There is requirement of change in the competitive strategies to achieve competitive
advantage in the market.
Specific Objectives:
 There is an objective of the company to increase their market share to 30% in the
competitive market.
 It is an objective of the company to enter in the market with innovative services or
products.
Measurable
It is estimated that company will achieve 70% of the market share that they have targeted and
will invest huge amount in research and development for introducing new product (Carnall,
2018).
4: External Environment Analysis
Political/Legal
The government supported such organization to promote their

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business in such country.
Economic The rise in the dollar of Australia increases the price of their services
or product that affects overall business.
Demographic The growth of population as well as immigration create great
demand for the company
Consumer Behaviour Due to increase in demand of entrainment among the consumers
increase the demand of innovative instrument for their
entertainment.
Technological The introduction of internet or cyber site provide a new market to
the company (Saito and Pham, 2018)
5: Competitor Analysis
The market is full of competition that forces the company to change their management. The
major competitors for the company are Apple as well as Sony. Apple is one of the well-
known brands that invest huge amount in their business. Sony is also known for their quality
of product and established their image in the market. Therefore, they are the main competitor
for the company that create huge competition in the market (Xu, Gao and Hammond, 2017).

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6: Major Change Requirement
The major changes requirement in their business is explained in below points:
 They need to change in their policies of the business and need to make them more
clear that would be easily understand by the employees of the company
 They need to change the technology according to the requirement or needs of the
consumers.
 They need to provide training and development session for workers as well as
employees
7: Cost –Benefit Analysis
Costs
 The company will need experienced personals for revising the policies that would
increase the cost to the company.
 Lack of knowledge in the employees about the new technologies increase mobility
ration in the company
 Training would need huge initial cost as well as deemed as time consuming
Benefits
 The vision and mission of the company will clearly able to understand by the
employees to make them motivate towards the goal.
 Achieving success in introducing innovative product attract new consumers in the
market.
 The trained employees would able to enhance their performance and deliver better
services and product to the consumers.

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8: Risk Analysis and Risk Mitigation Strategies
There is one of the most essential tasks for the company that they need to analyse the job for
establishing the experiences among the staffs.
The main aim of the change management plan is to adopt the new practices as well as
strategies to achieve the objective of the company in more effective manner.
To achieve the targeted objective, company need to motivate their employees that would
support the employees to give their full potential
9: Communication Plan
There are certain steps in communication plan that are explained in below points:
 In the first step, there is identification of parties to whom the change process needs to
be communicated. Therefore, the company will communicate with their employees
and senior management.
 In the second step, the process is the actual communication of change. The company
will adopt hierarchical structure to communicate such changes
 At the end, the feedback will be taken from the employees by the company due to the
reason it allow for better judgement of the employees performance over the new
positions (Bradley, 2016).
10: Barriers and Strategies to change
Barriers
There are certain barriers that can face by the company such as:

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 Lack of proper communication system as well as plan for the employees in the
company.
 Shortage of funds can be faced by the company for making the changes as well as
starting for training development sessions.
 Shortage of knowledge among the employees about new technologies
 There is no infrastructure as well as organisational structure for implementing
changes.
Strategies to Overcome
There are certain strategies to overcome are:
 Company can set up the strategies to communicate with the employees at time to time
about the changes.
 They should provide proper training to the employees that would enhance the
confidence among employees for using new technology
11: Need for staff training
There is great requirement for the providing training to the employees due to main reason;
they are the main asset of the company and source of growth of business. By providing
training to staff, the company would able to make changes in more effective and efficient
manner.
12: Strategies for Implementing Change
 In the first step, the company need to focus on the communication with employees as
well as stakeholders for making changes in the company.

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 After which, the company make changes against the current strategies so that they can
able to achieve desired goal.
 At the last, the company focus on giving support as well as motivation that help to
adjust themselves in the change environment.
13: Main Resources
The main resources required for implementing the project are professionals, employees,
management, money, and contribution of stakeholders
14: Role and Responsibilities of Team Members
Name Role Responsibilities
David Anderson Project Manager  Develop; maintain the
deliverable of
projects, plan, and
schedule.
 Allocate as well as
monitoring resources
 Identifying as well as
managing the risks.

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Thomas Graham Business Analyst  Evaluate the
requirement and need
of the company
 Organizing the
requirements
 Provide visualization
of data
Zara Watson Designer  Implement the
graphical interface of
the system
 Develop the easy user
interface of the
company
Alexandra Smith Coordinator  Coordinate the work
between the team
 Analyse the
effectiveness of
change management

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15: Protocols and Rules of Team
 The goal of the project team is to deliver the project with optimum standards, less
time as well as financial cost.
 The values of team is teamwork, honestly, commitment to work as well as mutual
sharing which is essential for development of project.
 The project team need to be reliable with the other team members. They maintain
fiduciary for evaluating the needs of business (Doppelt, 2017).
16: Team Dynamics and Delegation of Task
The team members in the project have a greater potential to implement the plan. They have
clear objectives towards the goal of the company and will use their efforts and skill to
compete their task
The work is delegated to the team member according to their responsibilities as:
Name Task Delegation
David Anderson Manage the whole change
management
Thomas Graham Analyse the external Risk
Zara Watson Make design of change
management plan

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Alexandra Smith Keep coordinating with the
team members

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Task3
Q1
Prosci’s Change management is the method in which the mixtures of various lessons that are
related to the changes are required. First, the preparation is done according the change.
Second, the plan is selected that help the company to successfully implement the changes
without facing any troubles during such process (Voehl and Harrington, 2016).
ADKAR model consist of different factors and it stand for:
A Awareness
D Desire
K Knowledge
A Ability
R Reinforcement
According to such model, the first task for the company is to understand the method used to
manage the change that introduced within the company starting from a group of person or
from a single individual (Karambelkar and Bhattacharya, 2017).
Q4
The main internal driving forces are explained in below points:

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 Organisational Culture: the organizational culture refers to the systematic study of
culture as well as attitude of the other individual as well as group within the company.
Organization culture play an essential role as they have a powerful success spirit as
well as embrace change with listen to the staff and consumers represent forward
looking.
 Financial Management: it is important factor of the company. Without money the
business cannot run therefore there is dire t relationship between business and money.
In the organization, the finance management take decision for the distribution of fund
such as raw material, introducing new asset etc. that represent as a powerful internal
driving force.
 Employee Moral: The moral of employee affect the productivity of the company at
greater level. The satisfied employees will make positive energy in the workplace.
 Competition: The global market covers from competition. Introducing new ideas,
innovations, technologies, as well as techniques foster competition in the market. To
face the organization every company faces some issues such as organizational
problem, expense etc (Leonidou et al., 2017).

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Q5
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3 Reinforcing Change
Collect and analyse feedback Diagnose gaps and implement
corrective actions
Managing Changes
Develop change management
Plan Take action and Implement Plans
Preaparing for Changes
Define the strategy of change
management
Prepare change management
team and develop sponsorship
model

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