Leading Corporate Transformation: A Blueprint for Business Renewal

By Robert H. Miles

Book Overview

The definitive guide to successful corporate transformation ?The framework Bob Miles illustrates in his new book has been the key tool Symantec has used to start the shift from being a technology-driven to a customer-driven company. Business leaders facing a variety of corporate transformation challenges will benefit from this important executive briefing.' -- Gordon E. Eubanks, Jr., chief executive officer, Symantec Corporation The distillation of a stellar twenty-year career, Leading Corporate Transformation is consultant Robert Miles's reply to executives who want to be able to rise to the most pervasive challenge facing them today: how to achieve fundamental transformation without exposing the organization to unacceptable risk. Here, in the form of an executive briefing, are the expert guidance and tools you need to meet a variety of corporate transformation challenges, whether you are trying to reposition a successful company, revitalize a failing one, merge different businesses and cultures, or manage a leadership succession process. These insights are relevant not only for senior executives, but also for managers at all levels of an organization undergoing fundamental transformation. If you are a leader who must effect organizational change, you will want to keep this book close at hand.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787903272
• ISBN13: 9780787903275
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

"The Corporate Transformation Framework."

"Corporate transformation challenges come in many forms and confront executive leaders with an array of vexing questions: How can I help my company, which is at the top of its competitive game, sidestep complacency and energize people to redirect their efforts and reposition their organization? How can I lead my company, which has lost its way and greatly depleted its resources, to revitalize itself for competitive excellence? How can our recently merged companies or functions overcome business and cultural differences? Or, more simply, now that I am in a position to do so, how can I effectively take charge of my organization and help people develop a new agenda to lead us through the next phase of its development? These questions, and more, have found successful resolution through the framework for leading corporate transformation described in this book (R. H. Miles)."In this context, in the first part of this book, Robert H. Miles offers a framework for leading corporate transformation. This framework, as stated by Miles, identifies the major/required tasks that a leader-indeed, that leaders at all leves in the organization-must perform to achieve successful transformation without exposing the corporation to unacceptable risk :I. Generate Energy for Transformation* Confront reality* Create and reallocate resources* Raise the bar* Model desired behaviors II. Develop a Vision and Business Success Model* Develop a strategic vision* Model business success* Analyze the total system: current vs. vision states* Identify the gaps* Focus on a few transformation initiativesIII. Align the Organization* Restructure* Implement infrastructure* Reshape the culture* Build core competenciesIV. Create a Transformation Process Architecture* Educate and involve* Create coordination and feedback mechanisms* Communicate progress* Fill transformation skill gapsAccording to R. H. Miles these elements of the framework provide not only a platform for launching a corporate transformation, but also for managing transitions from one phase of transformation to the next en route to the vision state.I highly recommend.