Describes the steps taken by the new CEO to return the company to profitability, to clarify the vision, and then build the infrastructure (human capital and information) necessary to support long-term changes in strategy and organization. Finish with a top management is preparing to initiate the second round of organizational change initiatives - this time more radical. Provides a rich description of the evolving nature of the vision of the changes and development of organizational and information infrastructure needed to support it. Students have the opportunity to define a detailed agenda for change (for example, specific changes in the organizational structure, management systems, people, processes and information) and the actions needed to implement it. "Hide
by Lynda M. Applegate Source: Harvard Business School 21 pages. Publication Date: April 20, 1994. Prod. #: 194108-PDF-ENG
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