Don't Blame the Tools: The adoption and implementation of managerial innovations
By Elizabeth Daniel, Andrew Myers and Keith Dixon
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- Presents an original research-based study that explores the reasons why organisations adopt new management practices (e.g. balanced scorecard and programme/project management offices)
- Links the reasons for adoption with the success of implementation
- Provides examples of good practice that can improve the implementation of new management practices in organisations
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Don't Blame the Tools - Elizabeth Daniel
Don't Blame the Tools:
The Adoption and Implementation of Managerial Innovations
Elizabeth Daniel
Andrew Myers
Keith Dixon
Brief Table of Contents
Copyright
Case study interviewee
Researchers' Contact Details
Acknowledgements
Chapter . Don't Blame the Tools
Table of Contents
Copyright
Case study interviewee
Researchers' Contact Details
Acknowledgements
Chapter . Don't Blame the Tools
1. Executive Summary
1.1. Research Approach
1.2. Findings and Recommendations
2. Introduction
2.1. Managerial Innovations
2.2. Purpose of the Research
2.3. Report Structure
2.4. Intended Audience
3. Adoption and Implementation of Managerial Innovations
3.1. The Life-Cycle of Managerial Innovations
3.2. The Development of Managerial Innovations
3.3. The Adoption and Implementation of Managerial Innovations
3.4. Rationales for the Adoption of Managerial Innovations
3.5. Summary of Literature Review
4. Research Aim and Questions
5. Research Method
5.1. Identifying Cases and Interviewees
6. Summary of Case Studies
6.1. Case 1: Hospital Trust (HT)
6.2. Case 2: County Council (CC)
6.3. Case 3: Retail Bank
6.4. Case 4: Police Force
7. Discussions of the Findings
7.1. Triggers of Innovation Adoption
7.2. Influences on the Adoption Decision
7.3. Link to Sturdy's Adoption Rationales
7.4. Time of Adoption in the Innovation Life-Cycle
7.5. Relative Speed of Implementation
7.6. Good Practice in Embedding Innovations
7.7. Combining the Influences on Adoption Decision, Time of Adoption and Speed of Implementation
7.8. Level of Achievement
7.9. How Long the Innovation Lasted
8. Summary of Findings
9. Conclusions
10. Implications of the Research
10.1. Implications for Practitioners
10.2. Implications for Management Accountants
10.3. Implications for Academics
11. Limitation of the Study and Suggestions for Further Research
Further reading
Copyright
CIMA Publishing is an imprint of Elsevier
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First edition 2009
Copyright © 2009 Elizabeth Daniel, Andrew Myers and Keith Dixon. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Case study interviewee
I think everything has a fi nite lifetime because if you keep things the same for too long, people stop seeing what you are trying to do. The fact that you have shaken things up gives you an opportunity to communicate in a fresh way. It gives you an opportunity to train people in a fresh way, to design your incentive schemes in a new way…. So whilst I wouldn’t recommend chucking everything out every 12 months, I think sticking to the same thing almost as a religion – in my experience – causes things to fall by the wayside
Researchers' Contact Details
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the Research Foundation at the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) for funding the research described in this report. We would also like to thank the managers within the case study organisations who gave their time and shared their experiences of adopting and implementing managerial innovations and the reviewers who provided valuable feedback on an earlier draft of this report.
Chapter Don't Blame the Tools - The Adoption and Implementation of Managerial Innovations
1. Executive Summary
The people governing and managing organisations are often criticised for being ‘faddish’ in their use of new management ideas or innovations. Many have been seen to easily fall into the trap of adopting the latest new idea or concept that is ‘flavour of the month’. It is not always obvious, however, that this new idea will be of value to the organisation. This is particularly the case when many of the new ideas often involve considerable time and capital investment for implementation. Many ideas seem to be just a re-labelling of old ideas that were tried in the past and were often seen to fail to deliver. What is perhaps more troubling is that