A Study on Organisational Development
Jessica Mackenzie and Rebecca Gordon
A working paper that maps organisational development end to end, from reading the context to sustaining the change. It compares Kotter, the McKinsey 7S framework and the ECDPM approach, with case examples from real programmes.
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