Colgate Palmolive Case Study

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Introduction
Colgate Palmolive is fast growing company in Pakistan having more than 100 products. They have more than 100 products for daily use and they have 2 factories in Pakistan. Recently, Colgate installed SAP ERP (Package 2) and they applied mixture of following change models to bring the change in finance and logistics business processes.

AC 1.1: DISCUSS MODELS OF STRATEGIC CHANGE
A restructuring of an organization’s business or a marketing plan that is typically performed in order to achieve an important objective. For example, a strategic change might include shifts in corporation’s policies, target market, mission or organizational structure. Web finance (2016) ‘What is strategic change? Definition and meaning,
Source: https://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/strategic-change.html
Strategic change has been defined by many persons. There are many theories about how to do change. Here we will discuss some famous theories of strategic change.

JOHN KOTTER MODEL:

SOURCE: https://www.toolshero.com/wp-content/uploads/ToolsHero_8-Step-change-model-Kotter.png

John Kotter introduced his eight-step change process in his book “Leading change” in 1995. Here we will look at this eight steps process.
• CREATE URGENCY: For change to happen, it helps if the whole company really wants it. Develop a sense of urgency around the need for change. This may help to spark the initial motivation to get things moving.
• FORM A POWERFUL COALITION: Convince people

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