Cummins: Organization Change Report

Cummins is a multinational Fortune 500 company that operates and serves customers worldwide. At the same time, Cummins maintains close ties to his Indiana home, where the headquarters of the company remain. Cummins' roots thrive on innovation, perseverance and commitment to community. Based in Columbus, Ind., In 1919, as Cummins Engine Company Clessie Lyle Cummins, the company was among the first to see the commercial potential of unproven engine technology invented two decades earlier Rudolf Diesel.

The need for change

The only way for organizations to survive in this highly dynamic world is to save your changes. Cummins can create change, they can change internally, and they may resist change, but in no way can stop it. The most successful organizations in the future will be those that develop and grow, and take advantage of change rather than resist change, or wait until the organizational changes are inevitable.

With the increase in the rate of change Cummins is becoming more and more difficult to keep the organization itself. Top management is now worried that the long-term planning almost impossible because of the extreme difficulty in predicting changes in the long run. The best example is the transformation of the unpredictable changes in business, political and social climate in the United States, as well as the rest of the world, to some extent, in connection with the incident on 11 September. Changes affecting the organization may come from different sources, ranging from people, technology for new laws and regulations of the government (Marshakpp 45-336).

These factors are both internal and as an internal or change process will be initiated within the organization, as well as from external forces (Cummins pp 25). These major forces include people such as changes in the year-demographics, the aging of the baby boom. Technology is another factor, such as the rapid development of information technologies and other new technologies. The third important factor influencing the process of organizational change is competition. Finally, the Government is also an important factor in this regard.

Current goals

There is an old saying that nothing can replace the knowledge of the market. All that you can learn about the market, and consumers should be learned from the experience, and to step into the market. There is no permanent way to explore the market and consumers. The only constant thing in life will change. Harish Bijoor also explained that the best way to know the market is there, as consumers there. That is why the experience of such an important role in the business world (Kanter & Jick pp 78).

Knowledge Management in Cummins of the brand is very hierarchical. As a salesman, took the lowest level in the organization. He / she is the front of people, in the first line of touch and rich market in terms of understanding the market. It is at least one authorized to act as well. 100 percent knowledgeable seller reports at the comptroller, who is about 70 percent, as the seller (Huff pp 25).

Future goals

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