This assignment assesses your creativity and knowledge in developing leadership strategies to implement radical change to improve business situations. The unit learning outcomes that would be assessed through this assignment are:

6.2 Evaluate the various leadership styles for radical change.

6.3 Apply radical change concepts to a case study.

In business scenarios when the "radicalness" of the planned change increases, more revolutionary change tactics needs to be implemented. Business Process Redesign (BPR) is one of the tactics of revamping the businesses at an accelerated pace by reengineering business process, organization structure and use of IT in the organization.

The article Business Process Redesign: Tactics for Managing Radical Change discusses cases of three different organization. The tactics and initiative used to implement BPR in these three organizations differ in their approaches and need for change. Read the article and write a paper addressing the following points.

1. Compare and contrast the BPR initiatives of the three cases discussed in the paper touching upon its suitability in various scenarios.

2. Identify a situation in your workplace where you see a need for radical change in the business process.

Discuss the situation, the scope and depth of change required. As a leader, what tactics and BPR initiative would you use to implement the change (or changes if there are many).