Changes to Achieve Organizational Sustainability

Introduction

The change in our society has become one of the most daily activities for our organizations, however the challenge is huge and competitive advantage lies in knowledge. At the dawn of this new century organizations are increasingly developing a clear trend towards the combination of principles and ways of doing business. Production processes, business activities, financial planning and other factors are similar in other companies, whether or not to the same sector or country. Currently, and for this reason, it is possible for an organization to set up another management system that is running successfully, simply making some changes to adapt (Nattrass, 2002, 2-9). This essays discusses the changes that help an organization to be efficient and effective in its respective industry.

Discussion

The challenge for all areas of the company is in production processes or marketing, financial aspects and, of course, the results are expected. But who carried out these actions? And who makes possible the increase in turnover in market share, reducing costs and in many other activities relevant to the success of the company? The answer points to the team that integrates the organization: its people (Holliday, 2002, 9-15). The force that holds the company is in people, systems integration capabilities in their degree of personal commitment to the organization, and something very important: their knowledge, the company owns the intangible resource, it is entirely personal.

Is the time to intelligently manage information and knowledge, characteristic of a "postindustrial society, information society, knowledge society," as so many authors have defined it, where knowledge is the "limiting resource", not land or raw materials, not even the capital. Keep this and has it all. Rather than define the society we live in, the transcendent would adapt to an environment where knowledge of staff is the most distinctive capacity of an organization.

The organizational change is a process that, in some ways, it has imposed on the environment, it has had to develop tools, methods and ways to act and adapt to a changing environment in pursuit of competitiveness in the market. The modern organization faces a new change, a New Economy and of the intangibles, where information and knowledge are keywords. Intangible assets will give your organization a competitive advantage; it is an element that distinguishes it from competition. As you know manage these assets in terms of achieving organizational intelligence will be able to achieve efficiency and effectiveness in decision making and thus be competitive (Nattrass, 2002, 2-9).

Managing Information

The management of information and knowledge has proven to be possible, thanks to information technology and communications technology (ICT) service to the organization: the information needed to make decisions and develop the production process, and knowledge people, so that the organization is smart and learning to achieve it in terms of its strategic objectives. Organizational learning influences the process of organizational change. When it manages to be intelligent, intangible assets are managed efficiently and the organization is considered a complex living system in which information and knowledge are ...