ABSTRACT
Organizations can go through different types of change depending on changes in their internal or external environments. The organization can make the small incremental adjustments associated with maintaining stability in its operational environment, or it can suffer through the larger discontinuous changes necessary to adjust to instability or uncertainty in its environment. It can be a planned adaptation to meet an anticipated shift in the external environment, or it can be an unplanned transformation requiring a fundamental re-creation brought on by a threat to the organization’s existence. This chapter discusses the reason and processes associated with strategic transformation change.
