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The Greiner Growth Model: Anticipate crises and adapt to a changing business world
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Anticipate crises and adapt to a changing business world
This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing the Greiner growth model, providing you with the essential information and saving time.
In 50 minutes you will be able to:
• Identify the five phases of growth that every company experiences during its lifetime: creativity, direction, delegation, coordination and collaboration.
• Recognize the crises that bring an end to each growth phase and what you can do to reduce their impact
• Use the model to anticipate future changes and act accordingly so as to ensure the sustainability of your company
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50MINUTES.COM provides the tools to quickly understand the main theories and concepts that shape the economic world of today. Our publications are easy to use and they will save you time. They provide elements of theory and case studies, making them excellent guides to understand key concepts in just a few minutes. In fact, they are the starting point to take action and push your business to the next level.
This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing the Greiner growth model, providing you with the essential information and saving time.
In 50 minutes you will be able to:
• Identify the five phases of growth that every company experiences during its lifetime: creativity, direction, delegation, coordination and collaboration.
• Recognize the crises that bring an end to each growth phase and what you can do to reduce their impact
• Use the model to anticipate future changes and act accordingly so as to ensure the sustainability of your company
ABOUT 50MINUTES.COM | Management & Marketing
50MINUTES.COM provides the tools to quickly understand the main theories and concepts that shape the economic world of today. Our publications are easy to use and they will save you time. They provide elements of theory and case studies, making them excellent guides to understand key concepts in just a few minutes. In fact, they are the starting point to take action and push your business to the next level.
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The Greiner Growth Model - 50minutes
Key information
Names: Greiner Growth Model, Greiner’s model for organisational growth.
Uses: Managing crises in a company, defining strategy and modelling organisational growth.
Why is it successful?
The model is theoretically predictive. Depending on the company’s sector of activity and changes in environmental factors, it allows users to locate and anticipate the next crisis (structural or functional change) that the organisation will have to deal with.
It allows users to identify certain indicators from the organisation’s past that are critical to its future success.
It makes it easier to understand how fast-growing companies (startups) work.
Key words:
Organisational change: The transformation process of the structure in a given context.
Organisational life cycle: All the phases, from creation to possible termination, through which a company passes.
Introduction
This quote from the British geologist Derek V. Ager, cited by Stephen Jay Gould (American palaeontologist, 1941-2002) in his book The Panda’s Thumb (1982), could, by extension, be applied to humans and to businesses. Indeed, just like humans, companies are complex organisations that undergo various changes during their existence. These changes involve more or less significant periods of crisis which can threaten the very survival of the organisation.
In the face of the current economic reality of globalisation, all businesses must deal with the challenge of competitiveness. The companies that succeed in meeting this challenge are
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