Case Study: Huntsman Huntsman Corporation: Introduction Huntsman Corporation based in Texas, US founded by Jon M. Huntsman in 1970 is one of the leading manufacturers of discriminated organic chemical products. The Company manages its operation through Huntsman International LLC (Huntsman International). The Company initiated around 80 plastic and packaging products in a range of chemicals and formulation that markets globally to a range of consumer and industrial customers. It is now the multinational supplier of methyl diphenyl diisocyanate, amines, surfactants, epoxy-based polymer formulations, textile chemicals, dyes, maleic anhydride and titanium dioxide. This global company segregate in six divisions which include: Polyurethanes, …show more content…
For average IT anticipates, for example, base activities, IT is in charge of the business case. A definite feature of the Huntsman change management culture is that extensive measuring and documenting is carried out. Each one change solicitation obliges a nitty gritty portrayal and fitting consideration is paid to its review trail. The chief worldwide IT endeavor business frameworks remarks: "No ticket, no cure!" Another measuring technique at Huntsman is the use of week by week updated dashboards. These dashboards, utilizing movement light shades, give a sign of how well specific applications or administrations are performing. Later, a post assessment happens when the undertakings are finished. There is additionally a yearly review, performed by Deloitte & Touché, covering subjects, for example, debacle recuperation, information maintenance, and security. This review upgrades an ensured coherence of IT …show more content…
It can be seen as an issue network structure where each administration group chief has full summon over specific applications and stages, and in the meantime has IT obligation regarding a particular business division. Other structural components of IT administration contain the presence of IT councils. Three particular panels were distinguished: the ITLT, the BPSG, and the operational IT panel. Moreover, parts and obligations are unmistakably characterized utilizing unambiguous sets of responsibilities. With the CIO dwelling in the top managerial staff, IT administration issues are all the more frequently on the board's
Do not let any one individual in your IT group become the sole point of failure. Correct assessment; ironically it was a knowledge management system that led to the crash of the network. Succession planning is key ingredient to success for businesses.
Change management in the form of policy that empowers employees to make decisions about product development and ensures the decision focus aligns with the grand strategy. The key success factors lie in maintaining high product quality, high product performance, and keeping track of what the competitions is doing. Risk is quite low and manageable through practices that include ensuring the market needs and wants are met and that quality control is applied during program development and delivery.
The biggest challenges with integrating a new software system includes the financial cost of acquiring the it and the training that goes with it. Another challenge would be the staff themselves, as many employees can be against change. Al-Abri (2007) reported changes to be a complex and challenging process. Implementing changes are more successful when staffs have a clear vision of why changes are being implemented and how it will impact them directly. For this process to happen, changes need to be communicated in a clear and precise manner to the staff. Moreover, change agents need to be readily available to answer questions and provide reassurance of a positive
As you would imagine, having to look at our current processes and breaking each process down at micro level was a very daunting task for everyone involved in the project. After going through the progression of identifying which processes were potential changes, the leadership and project team members were tasked with communicating the findings and what the official implementation plan for these changes would look like. From my perspective, this was the biggest pitfall for the team. Our communication plan was not as detailed as it should have been in terms of illustrating value to other team members and leaders within the division. In addition, the project and leadership teams set unrealistic processing goals for team members. Thus, minimizing the division’s potential to create short-term wins for individual team members, as well as for the organization as a whole. Therefore, one could identify our breakdown occurring during the second cluster of Kitters’ Eight Steps of Change. Thus, this paper will attempt to address how change management can help leadership implement a change within the organization through analysis and
Change management is associated with processes and mechanisms envisioned to change initiation within the control (Kotter, 2011). It involves in decision making to setting up a goal, develop necessary process and assigning the available resources to achieve that goal by effective planning and costing (Hayes, 2010). Therefore, change management focuses on whole business process and leadership directs the company toward its vision.
Iskandar, M., & Salleh, N. A. M. (2010). IT Governance in Airline Industry: A Multiple Case Study. International Journal of Digital Society, 1(4), 308-314.
This paper will be broken down into six sections profiling each critical part of implementing and managing change in an organization. The sections included are; outline for plan creating urgency, the approach to attracting a guiding team, a critique of the organizational profile, the components of change, and how to empower the organization.
The Government of Alberta Foundation project has all of their assets in line, however, in order to achieve the greatest value among linking IT investments, the project framework needs to greater align with the GAEA governance model. In projects that have such a large scope as this, a strong EA governance model when implemented correctly provides significantly improved business value of IT investments. This is a $340 million dollar a year investment over 106 ministry business processes managed by a staff of 130. Coordination is essential in the development of these IT business solutions and increased governance of the GAEA is the answer. It is a matter of the Government of Alberta CIO gaining that leadership among management executives to effectively manage this IT initiative from the top down. Alberta is currently in the engaged BA state, and this means that IT may take the backstage to fulfilling business processes. However, this is the stage to initiate governance and take great care in linking IT with business
One case study that we looked at was conducted by the Clorox brand. Clorox looked at the different types of products they sell and why some categories sell better than others. Clorox struggles to sell products that are meant for purposes where bleach as an ingredient would be harmful and would cause damage to the surface that the product is being used. Some examples of these types of products where bleach would be damaging would include laundry detergent, carpet cleaner, or oven cleaner. Clorox discovered that they were struggling to sell these kinds of items because people tend to associate the brand Clorox with bleach, regardless of whether the product has bleach in it or not. Since people associate the Clorox brand with bleach, Clorox decided that they needed to be careful with how they extend their
The Role of the Chief Information Officer Introduction The growing importance of information handling has led many organizations to consider having professionals handling it. The summary will address the different types of roles played by the chief information officer (CIO) in different fields and organizations. The CIO can be effective in many different fields like in the medical industry, in IT organizations, in educational institutions, in Government organizations, and promoting a sustainable development in the environmental foot print. The summary shows that the CIOs in these different fields have two common skills that they should have which are decisional skill and managerial skill.
Being the highest senior executive accountable for Information Technology (IT) and computer systems, they also have administrative functions such as creation and implementation of policies and procedures. Likewise, the CIO directly handles the IT employees and provides an adequate performance review based on Key Performance Indicators of the department.
Project managers may decide that major changes to business processes may be required. Change management is important for project managers and business leaders, starting at the project phase and continuing throughout the entire life cycle. Employees need training to understand how the system will change business processes.
Top companies need to develop a strong performance anatomy which allows them to continually pursue customer-valued innovations and differentiate from the competitors. And an increasingly important component of this strong performance anatomy is the company’s IT capability which allows a business focussed on high performance to create and act on customer and business insights in real time, create new products and services and transform business models. Likewise a strong and proactive IT governance model is also important which insures that business leaders are involved in planning and aligning IT initiatives with business priorities which is well understood by Accenture. And the company’s IT governance demands are particularly heavy as well being a heavily matrixed organization with five operating groups, 17 focused industry grou...
change management is also called change control, it is an approach to use process, planning, and technique to changeover a group or an organization to show the future state and also achieve the demand of business outcome.（Rune Todnem， 2007）.The meaning of change management which is when an organization grow slowly，and there are cause some internal problem，but it hard to change the business environment，the organization have to work out a change strategy，to adjust and improve internal hierarchy，workflow and enterprise culture，to help the organization transitions well，the key of organization change is management change，however，the success of organization change is come from management change，the change could not make sure the 100% success rate, even lower that makes people often scared and believe” change probably will failed, but not change absolutely will be failed, so realize how to change is important than why need change and change what.
The world is constantly changing in many different ways. Whether it is technological or cultural change is present and inevitable. Organizations are not exempt from change. As a matter of fact, organizations have to change with the world and society in order to be successful. Organizations have to constantly incorporate change in order to have a competitive advantage and satisfy their customers. Organizations use change in order to learn and grow. However, change is not something that can happen in an organization overnight. It has to be thought through and planned. The General Model of Planned Change focuses on what processes are used by the organization to implement change. In the General Model of Planned Change, four steps are used in order to complete the process of change. Entering and Contracting, Diagnosing, Planning and Implementing, and Evaluating and Institutionalizing are the four steps used in order to complete the process of change in an organization. The diagnostic process is one of the most important activities in OD(Cummings, 2009, p. 30).