Business leaders must continually look at the changing market to develop and implement strategies within their organizations. Failure to do so results in becoming less relevant to consumers and losing ...

Organizational development (OD) encompasses the actions involved with applying the study of behavioral science to organizational change. It covers a wide array of theories, processes, and activities, ...

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...

Beer, Michael. "Developing an Effective Organization: Intervention Method, Empirical Evidence, and Theory ." In Research in Organizational Change and Development. Vol ...

For an organization to thrive, it must be committed to continual, positive change. The secret to this level of growth is implementing an organizational development (OD) strategy at your company.

In the social sector, most people tend to see program evaluations as high-stakes endeavors designed to confirm the value of specific programmatic work. And yet the findings often feel irrelevant or ...

As the world faces the climate crisis, international protests for racial justice, a global pandemic, and an economic downturn, the social change sector is struggling. Organizations across the spectrum ...

In the early 1500s, Hernán Cortés led an expeditionary force into the Aztec Empire. When his force had disembarked on shore, he set fire to the fleet of ships they’d used to cross the Atlantic. This ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. For business leaders ...

Organizational development is a systematic process aimed at initiating and implementing changes in values or operations to promote long-term growth and efficiency. These efforts serve to increase ...