The Need for Business Process Change
Why are so many organizations finding it
necessary to undergo business process change? We noted in Chapter 1 that all systems,
including organizations, are subject to entropy—a normal process leading to system
decline. An organization is behaving most typically when it maintains the status quo,
does not change in synch with its environment, and starts consuming its own resources
to survive. In a sense, that is what happened to Kmart. In the early and mid-1970s,
Kmart was in such a high-flying growth mode that it passed first J. C. Penney and then
Sears to become the world’s largest retailer. But then the firm’s managers grew compla-
cent and assumed that the discount retailer’s prosperity would continue and that they
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