Change Management – Part 1

1. Introduction

More than ever, in these confused and changing times, management – enterprise management – will need to be agile, will need to reinvent itself and break paradigms. Also, management will need to be able to surpass the current challenges and the future ones generated by the current global crises, coupled with the evolution of business practices, markets and consumers’ profiles.

For that, the Change Management will have a fundamental role in the success of the organization. Also, it will have an important role in the development of new organizational structures that will be necessary to face the new way of doing businesses.

Before start developing the matter of change management some concepts need to be refreshed and they are related with the systemic vision of changes. The objective is to have a broad vision of processes that are related with change management.

There are various researchers that developed different perspectives and concepts about the change process, chaos and complexity. They are from different science areas and with different approaches. We can mention, for example, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Ilya Prigogine, John Holland, David Bohm, Edgar Morin, Kurt Lewin, and so on. Many of them presented their conclusions with a transdisciplinary perspective, which is fundamental to understand the current reality and events.

So, to understand change management, it is fundamental to have an open mind and use a transdisciplinary approach.

Next article, we will talk about fundamental concepts.