Managing the Change

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Before beginning the installation of a fire protection system, it may be necessary to secure approval from local, state or federal agencies that govern fire protection installations. The facility insurance carrier may request that they be notified of any new fire protection construction or retrofitting of existing systems so that they may offer assistance in managing the change. 

Handy, C. (1995). Gods of management The changing work of organizations. New York Oxford... 

The persons responsible for managing the change process evaluate the feasibility and impact of the proposed change in relation to their area of expertise and authority Areas that should be included in the evaluation process are, as applicable QA, regulatory compliance, area management, the system owner/sponsor, the end-user, and technology professionals (e.g., IT, engineering). 

The most critical barrier to managing stakeholder value is the dominant mental model. A new mindset is needed to capture the systemic interrelationships between a company and its societal context. With this mindset it is not enough to just compete with industry rivals, but it is also important to understand and manage the changing expectations of an ever growing and diverse set of stakeholders. It no longer makes sense to see nature and society as external and peripheral to the business. 

Figure 21.4. The rise in oxygen partial pressure with time and an indication of the correlation with the rise of organization which we take it was the way to manage the changed chemical environment of Figure 21.3. We use the word higher here to indicate an increase in organizational complexity, but we have to include symbiosis.

J.B. Durkee, The Parts Cleaning Handbook Without CFC s—How to Manage The Change. Hanser-Gardner, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994. 

Partridge MR. Managing the change issues for healthcare professionals, physicians and patients. Eur Respir Rev 1997 41 40-41. 

The original term used for this topic by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was Process Safety Information. The more recent term, used by the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), is Knowledge Management. The change in terminology indicates that it is important not only to have sound and complete technical information, but that the information must be accessible to those who need it in a practical and timely manner. 

Handy, C. 1995. Gods of Management The Changing Work of Organizations. New York Oxford University Press. 

Has the change been reviewed to determine if it is subject to any requirements to recalculate Toxic Release Inventory (TRI), reevaluate control device efficiency, or otherwise manage the change under state or federal requirements ... 

A further approach to the concept of resilience of cities leads to the definition of the social resilience. It moves from the centrality of communities in urban systems, i.e., the predominance of the social over the physical system according to this approach, social resilience is defined as the ability of communities to deal with external shocks, managing the changes induced on infrastructures, on the external environment, and on the economic and social systems (Adger 1997, 2000). Social resilience, according to Adger, can be measured by three characteristics resistance... 

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