Change is about alteration, difference, innovation, metamorphosis, modification, mutation, permutation, revolution, transformation, transition, transmutation, conversion, substitution, and exchange.
Change means making things different. Smit & Cronje define organisational change as ‘a process through which any organisation takes on new ideas to become different’.
The reality is that organisations undertake change in response to changes in the environment. Regardless of the scope and magnitude of change, most organisations experience change in a negative way first. We often hear the following phrases in boardrooms and corridors:
In the next paragraphs we will explore factors that cause organisations to change, whether in reaction to or in anticipation of, as well as the nature and types of change.