Lantana Cafe: Impact of Changes and Implementation Plan using Kotter

This report examines the impact of proposed changes within Lantana Cafe, a London-based business, highlighting both positive and negative consequences for the organization and its employees. Positive impacts include improved reputation, reduced duplication of work, enhanced efficiency, and employee training and development. Negative impacts may involve increased workload and costs, difficulties in understanding new processes, and potential employee turnover. The report suggests implementing John Kotter's eight-step model to manage these changes effectively, focusing on creating urgency, forming a powerful coalition, developing a vision for change, communicating the vision, removing obstacles, creating short-term wins, building on the change, and anchoring the change in corporate culture. Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of monitoring performance with time frames through regular meetings, 360-degree feedback, and performance reports. The document concludes by referencing relevant academic sources and thanking the reader.

TASK 4

4.1 Impact of proposed changes
In the Lantana Cafe of London there are various changes take
place in business and their workers.
These changes create positive and negative both type of impact on
the organization.
Change are helpful to make productive products and services.
With the help of changes, cited cafe can eliminate problems and
obstacles.

Positive impact on business and
employee
 Changes are assist to improve reputation of the enterprise
through introducing new plan.
•It is also helpful for Lantana Cafe in reducing duplication and
unnecessary things of work through making long process in short
activities.
•Another positive impact occurs that is enhancing in greater
efficiency which make effective outcomes to doing right things.
•For employee of the organisation, proposed changes determines
training and development program. It will helpful to enhance
their skills and knowledge at workplace.
•It will make enlarged responsibilities and meeting with
expectations through enhancing workers knowledge and skills.

Negative impact on business
• Changes sometimes create problems for the company in
increasing workload.
• It also increases cost of Lantana Cafe to implement new
method and production for enhance high profits at workplace.
• Further, it also generates problems to understand new things
within the business unit.
• Some time, the proposed changes creates adverse impact on
workers and they leave office.

Plan for manage changes within the
business
When Lantana cafe make changes with the proposed plan, they have to introduce Joh Kotter's
model. It consists of eight steps that helps to maintain successful operations with plan. It includes
following steps:
Create urgency
•It is the first step to make changes with effective plan.
•In this aspect, the chosen business need to identify potential threats and develop scenario
according to the operations and functions.
•In this way, they help to examine the opportunities that are helpful to make changes in quoted
cafe.
Form a powerful coalition
•All changes which are made by the business are convenient for all people who are working with
the enterprise.
•With the help of traditional hierarchy, mentioned cafe can lead with changes that bring in a team
and influence with power and variety of sources.
•In addition to this, the cited firm need to analyze different stakeholders within the company.

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Create vision for change
•When the company make plan then they have to determine values
which are important and assist to implement changes which are needed
for future.
•They have to create strategy for execute vision.
•Further, they have to ensure changes are describes about vision which
company has made.
Communicate with vision
•After creating vision, Lantana cafe is required to communicate about it
with their employee and other people.
•Further, they have to address it with concerned party honestly.
•Apply that vision in all aspect of operations at each level of hierarchy.

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Remove obstacles
•In this step, the cited firm need to remove problems and
obstacles which they face at the time of implementing change.
•Moreover, they recruit new leaders' and recognition reward to
employees at workplace.
•Take action quickly so that barriers can be removed.
Create short term wins
•Loopholes and obstacles which find by company, need to be
determine in short that win easily.
•The chosen organisation need to give reward to meet targets at
the workplace.

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Build change
•With the help of building change, new product development can
be implemented.
•In this step, opportunities can be build which assist to make
continuous improvements.
•Keep ideas that focusses to bring new things at workplace.
Anchor the change in corporate culture
•In this last step, Lantana cafe need to analyze the progress
through changes which make success at workplace.
•It creates new plans that can be replace through key stakeholder.

Monitor improvements in the
performance of business with time
frame
In order to implement changes, it is essential to monitor
performance with time frames. Following methods can be
implemented to monitor performances:
•Regular meetings
•360 degree feedback process
•Performance report

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