«Los escenarios actuales reflejan que lo “único constante es el cambio» Los cambios presentados en las organizaciones en los últimos años han mostrado que las prácticas de gestión han evolucionado hasta romper paradigmas y adaptarse al contexto actual. De esta manera, las organizaciones viven inmersas en procesos constantes de cambio, transformaciones y adaptaciones a la incertidumbre y el caos, determinando sus nuevas necesidades. Esta obra contribuye al logro de la efectividad organizacional mediante la optimización de procesos, el ahorro de recursos y la minimización de los desperdicios en tiempo, recursos humanos y materiales, como estrategia para el crecimiento del desarrollo sostenible. Integra dos pensamientos y metodologías que han dado excelentes resultados por separado: el pensamiento lean y la gestión del cambio. Dirigido a líderes empresariales, gerentes de proyecto, profesionales de recursos humanos y a cualquier persona interesa en mejorar la eficiencia y la adaptabilidad en entornos organizacionales.

Using specific examples of incremental and transformational changes, and outlining the long-term corporate benefits of sustainability, the book examines the changes required to achieve true sustainability.

Since this classic book was first published in 2003, sustainability has increasingly become mainstream business for leading corporations, whilst the topic itself has also been a hotly debated political issue across the globe. The sustainability phase models originally discussed in the book have become more relevant with ever more examples of organizations at later stages in the development of corporate sustainability. Bringing together global issues of ecological sustainability, strategic human resource management, organizational change, corporate social responsibility, leadership and community renewal, this new edition of the book further develops its unified approach to corporate sustainability and its plan of action to bring about corporate change. It integrates new research and brings illustrative case studies up to date to reflect how new approaches affect change and leadership. For the first time, a new positive model of a future sustainable world is included - strengthened by references to the global financial crisis, burgeoning world population numbers and the rise of China. With new case studies including BP's Gulf oil spill and Tokyo Electric Company's nuclear reactor disaster, this new edition will again be core reading for students and researchers of sustainability and business, organizational change and corporate social responsibility.

En estos momentos todas las sociedades afrontan retos mayúsculos, como los cambios tecnológicos disruptivos, los desequilibrios demográficos o la desigualdad económica. Además, debemos afrontar la COVID-19, una pandemia universal que ha hundido la economía mundial en una crisis cuya intensidad superará la de la década anterior, y que induce miedo al futuro. Sin embargo, es posible acometer las transformaciones necesarias y conseguir que las sociedades prosperen si asumimos el compromiso común y universal representado en la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible. Una herramienta clave y necesaria –aprobada en septiembre del año 2015 por los 193 Estados que componen la Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas– que promueve una prosperidad económica compartida, el desarrollo social y la protección ambiental para todos los países. Cambiar el mundo explica por qué la Agenda 2030, y los diecisiete Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) asociados a ella, es la mejor respuesta a esos desafíos globales que afectan tanto a países desarrollados como en vías de desarrollo y cómo las empresas juegan un papel fundamental si asumen la función de liderar el cambio. Además, los autores presentan casos e iniciativas de empresas y organizaciones con valores como CaixaBank, Leroy Merlin, Repsol, BASF, Iberdrola o Fundación “la Caixa” que están en primera línea de acción ante una emergencia sanitaria como la actual y que han sabido incorporar a su estrategia los ODS más relevantes para ellas. De su exitosa experiencia podemos extraer lecciones y oportunidades para una mejor implementación de la Agenda 2030, el gran reto empresarial de esta década.

There is no bigger challenge for organizational change management in the contemporary world than achieving greater sustainability. The challenges associated with sustainable development are multifaceted, including criteria pertaining to the delivery of environmental, social, ethical and economic results. Creating sustainable value requires companies to address issues that relate to pollution and waste, created by industrialization; to respond in a transparent manner to the challenges increasingly raised by the civil society, namely NGOs; to invest in emerging technologies that provide innovative solutions to many of today’s environmental problems; and to effectively respond to the challenges of increased poverty and inequality around the globe. On the other hand, to create shareholder value, managers must focus not only on cost reduction and risk control, but also on fostering innovation, enhancing corporate reputation within external stakeholders, and establishing a credible growth path for the future. The current global financial crisis has left few untouched: unprecedented unemployment figures, public deficits, bankruptcies, redundancies, austerity regimes, and governments bailing out banks all over the globe. World confidence is at a record low. How can management scholars encounter solutions for the dilemmas created by this scenario of change in which they can manage to change sustainably? This book provides some answers to these pressing questions. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Change Management.

As the world struggles to cope with the growing threat of a global carbon crisis, Doppelt has revised one of the best books ever written about change management, leadership and sustainability to focus on de-carbonisation. Doppelt's research, presented in this hugely readable book, demystify the sustainability-change process by providing a theoretical framework and a methodology that managers can use to successfully transform their organisations to embrace sustainable development. Filled with case examples, interviews and checklists on how to move corporate and governmental cultures toward sustainability, the book argues that the key factors that facilitate change appear in the successful efforts at companies such as AstraZeneca, Nike, Starbucks, IKEA, Chiquita, Interface, Swisscom and Norm Thompson and in governmental efforts such as those in the Netherlands and Santa Monica in California. For these and other cutting-edge organisations, leading change is a philosophy for success. Leading Change toward Sustainability has been used by change leaders around the world to guide their internal global warming and sustainability organisational change initiatives. This new edition is essential reading for leaders from all types of organisations.