Managing Change: A Model for Organisational Readiness to Adopt Pharmacy Information Systems

Dynamic Model to Assess Organisational Readiness during Information System Implementation

This paper presents a methodology for assessing an organisation’s readiness to implement an information system (IS). We use the technique of fuzzy cognitive maps which draws on the theory of Neural Networks. The techniques comprising the model have been used in many applications, but their use in the planning of change management projects is relatively new. The paper explains the theory, presen...

Determinants of Employee Readiness for Organisational Change

ADKAR Model and Nurses\' Readiness for Change

Background: Transformation is the greatest problem that all organizations face today. By the participation of people in the change projects, the possible resistance rate is reduced and the process of change is accelerated. The readiness of individuals makes them more involved in the change process. The current study aimed at investigating the readiness of using nursing Kardex through applying A...

Managing readiness in enterprise systems-driven organizational change

Behaviour & Information Technology Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713736316 Managing readiness in enterprise systems-driven organizational change Kee-Young Kwahk a; Hee-Woong Kim b a School of Business IT, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea b Department of Information Systems, National Universit...

A unified open systems model for explaining organisational change

This paper presents an approach to developing a unified conceptual model to describe and explain change in organisations, viewed as complex systems. The authors propose a model that brings together the traditional open systems model (based on principles of homeostasis, steady state, and cybernetics) and the dissipative systems model (based on thermodynamic non-equilibrium principles) to explain...