International Change Management

International business environments are undergoing profound transformation.
In response, organizations rely on international change management as a strategic avenue for adapting to uncertainty. This requires skills in coordinating international stakeholders, strengthening organizational capabilities, developing collaborative platforms and networks, adjusting organizational structures, redesigning business processes, and implementing innovative technological systems supported by Artificial Intelligence.
The book provides the reader with hands-on methods and tools on how companies and organizations can respond strategically to changes in both new and existing global markets.
On the one hand, the reader will learn how to anchor strategic international change utilizing effective management tools. Such tools include stakeholder analysis, cultural gap analysis, extended strategic management, Logical Framework Analysis (LFA), adaptive planning by scheduling or iteration, agile Project Portfolio Management (PPM), innovative digitalized transformation plus a broader risk management process, including scenario modeling and real-option budgeting.
On the other hand, the reader will be provided with additional answers for timely implementation of change management. These will concern appraisal of appropriate organization structures based on responsibility matrices, as well monitoring and calibrated alignment, multi-dimensional logging of change, flexible leadership models, building and sustaining of international teams in projects, cross-cultural communication management in international change projects, co-operation for effective problem solving, and application of enduring learning.
The book is well-suited for readers who want to think out of the box, in how to handle unique challenges facing a company or organization in a real-life situation. The book emboldens the reader to discuss a set of mutually connected models and tools, in assessing whether international change is integrated into the core capabilities of the organization, and ultimately to what extent can the company fulfill its strategic goals.