Enhancing Change Capacity. Client-Consultant Collaboration and Emergent Change

Authors

  • Kenneth W. Kerber
  • Anthony F. Buono

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4468/2007.1.10kerber.buono

Keywords:

Management Consulting, Consulting, Client-Consultant Relationship, Managing Organizational Change, Change Management, Globalization

Abstract

Companies, in every industry are increasingly challenged to build a capacity for change, both in response to and in anticipation of continuously changing competitive market and technological pressures.
Client-consultant collaboration can be prompted to broaden change management repertoire, creating a culture in which organizational members understand and support different approaches to change, ask and respond to questions that
stimulate change and, in general, develop a culture of change.
Consultants, working and collaborating with the client, can prompt a broader appreciation of the range of appropriate change approaches and when turning a system ‘loose’ may be the most effective way to proceed. The goal is to work with
clients to create organizations that are ‘built to change’.

Author Biographies

Kenneth W. Kerber

Kerber & Associates, Chairman

Anthony F. Buono

Professor of Management, Bentley College

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Published

01-06-2007

How to Cite

Kerber, K. W., & Buono, A. F. (2007). Enhancing Change Capacity. Client-Consultant Collaboration and Emergent Change. Symphonya. Emerging Issues in Management, (1), 81–96. https://doi.org/10.4468/2007.1.10kerber.buono