Organizational change, timing

One area of needed organizational change involves the dissemination throughout industry of information developed both in industry and industrial laboratories. At the present time, publication of such material is fragmentary and slow. Consolidated publication, or abstracting of some type spread over a wide audience, should be considered. 

The Army command and control (C2) community is concerned with how new information, technology, and organizational changes projected for tomorrow s battlefield will impact soldier tasks and workload. To address this concern, an initiative was taken to model soldier performance under current and future operational conditions. In this way, the impact of performance differences could be quem-titatively assessed so that equipment and doctrine design could be influenced in a timely and effective manner. 

MOOC Title (Title of the organizational change and the effective date.) NOTE Often the effective date is phased over a period of time. 

The formula is read as dissatisfaction, D (a measure of the understanding of the true need and the opportunity to improve) times vision, V, times first steps, F, must be greater than the resistance to change, R. Other frameworks, such as the one developed by Kotter [4] outline steps generally applicable to organizational change, as shown in Table 8.1. 

Leary, W.F. 2004. Shuttle flew with potentially fatal flaw. New York Times, March 22. McCurdy, H.F. 1994. Inside NASA High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. 

Because of a series of organizational changes and mergers, the name of the owner/operator of the gas system at Waterloo, Iowa, has changed over the years. In 1971, Iowa Public Service Company installed the gas service that ultimately failed. At the time of the accident, the gas system operator was Midwest Gas Company. The current operator is MidAmerican Energy Corporation. 

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