Creating advantage through research and understanding

There are three converging trends confronting operational managers:

• Constant and increasing change
• Organizational realignment
• Partnering

Partnering is also a response to the need to innovate and achieve lower cost platforms.

In their second book Gibbs & Humphries look at how these trends come together in what they describe as Collaborative Change between and across the organizational divides.

The book addresses the underlying concepts and models that can be applied, but critically draws heavily on personal experience to shed light on how such change can be executed through high performing partnerships. This “experience” is related in many case studies which include operational duties in Iraq, team management on a husky sledge and virtual teams in the British Civil Service and many others.

There is a wealth of academic rigour and thought in this book backed by many hands-on examples of how to manage change and partnering effectively.

With contributing authors including Tim Barnsley, Tim Cummins, Andrew Downard, Graham Haines, Peter Hunter, David Hawkins, Anthony Kesten and Chris Markey. 

Collaborative change is now available in hard copy from https://www.createspace.com/3483267.

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PRAISE FOR Collaborative Change...

"This book merits your attention as you seek to understand how to collaborate effectively with your partners" Air Vice Marshall Matt Wiles, Director General, UK Joint Supply Chain.

"Partnering and alliances is a subject that for years has been in the too difficult category. Tim (Barnsley) tackles one of "the elephants in the room" for many IT companies in a way that is clear and more importantly based on hard experience" Philip Oliver, Group Marketing Director of Fujitsu.