Management of Strategic Change at Alibhai Shariff & Sons Limited

Abstract

Economic and social forces such as globalization, social/cultural, political/legal, competition, technology, liberalization, unstable financial markets and advance in technology are among the many business environmental factors driving the escalating pace of change evident within organizations today. The need for change early enough and pulling together the resources required human, technological, financial and information on time to implement the change is usually seen as differentiating core competence for competitive companies and the only way out for orgs to survive the onslaught of a changing environment. Determining the need for change and having resources to implement is one thing but the process of implementing the change is what determines the eventual out come of the whole change process. Therefore it is becoming evident that to put strategic change in a volatile environment, good strategic change management practices must be adopted. The objectives of the study were to establish the strategic change management practices and the challenges of managing strategic change management practices at ABSS. The research design employed in this study was a case study method and collected primary and secondary data. Primary data was collected using interview guide. The collected qualitative data from the interview guide was analyzed using content analysis. Content analysis generated qualitative report which was analyzed in continuous prose. The study revealed that the management of ABSS has adopted strategic change management practices due to external forces such as competition, globalization, and technology among other factors. The need for the organization to implement major