Imagineering the Butterfly Effect
eBook - PDF

Imagineering the Butterfly Effect

Transformation by Inspiration

  1. 393 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Imagineering the Butterfly Effect

Transformation by Inspiration

About this book

'Making change happen' is an important challenge that business administration strategists face today. Not only do many organizations need change, whole industries and systems need to transform in order to survive and thrive in a connected society. In this study, the complexity-based design approach of 'imagineering' is presented and evaluated for its effectiveness in realizing organizational innovation in a sustainable way. The method approaches organizational change as an emerging process of self-organization. By redesigning the business concept in the narrative mode, a kind of bottom-up revitalizing process is effectuated, which ignites the collective creativity of involved stakeholders in a strategically envisioned direction. Instead of focusing on changing behavior as conventional change methods do, the method focuses on achieving a mind-shift in order to effectuate 'transformation by inspiration.' The effectiveness of the method is evaluated predominantly through two cases which span a period of approximately 10 years: the case of the city of Antwerp, and the case of the oldest Belgian retail-chain, Veritas. Based on insights gained from this study, the book reflects on the implications of the imagineering design method on four fields of study: transformative organizing, strategic thinking, design thinking in management, and management education.

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Information

Publisher
Eleven International Publishing
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9789460949647
Edition
0
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business Strategy
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Preface
  4. Testimonials
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Tables
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of illustrating Boxes
  9. Academic Abstract
  10. Managerial Abstract
  11. 1 Introduction
  12. 2 Complexity and Social Systems Inquiry
  13. 3 Enterprise Logic Transformation as a process of Organizational Emergence
  14. 4 The design approach of imagineering
  15. 5 Research methodology
  16. 6 Application and evaluation of the imagineering design method for revitalizing the City of Antwerp and the oldest Belgian retail chain, Veritas
  17. 7 Contributions, Limitations and Conclusions
  18. References
  19. Appendix A Summary in Dutch –Samenvatting in het Nederlands
  20. Appendix B Glossary/Explanation of concepts
  21. Appendix C Analysis of case material Antwerp
  22. Appendix D Analysis of case material Veritas
  23. Appendix E Strategic Document of the city ofAntwerp
  24. Appendix F Strategic Document Veritas