1. Competitiveness and Globalization
Change Acceleration Management
ORGANIZATIONAL
CHANGE and IMPROVEMENT
Business Transformation Practices in Latin America
Rod Biasca
Año 2006

2. Temario
BUSINESS
RENEWAL
A new subject?
ASSESSMENT
BIASCA’S MODEL
INNOVATION A three-step approach
EXECUTION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books and Web Sites
DEBATE
Discussions
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3. Introducción
COMPETITIVENESS
IN THE WORLD
Business Transformation. Latin American Experiences. R. Biasca

4. WORLD COMPETITIVENESS SCOREBOARD
World Economic Forum IMD
Country Ranking Country Ranking
2004 2004
Finland 1 Finland 8
USA 2 USA 1
Chile 22 Chile 26
Spain 23 Cataluña 27
Spain 31
China 46 Zhejiang 19
China 24
Mexico 48 Mexico 56
India 55 India 34
Brazil 57 Sao Paulo 47
Brazil 53
Colombia 64 Colombia 41
Peru 67
Argentina 74 Argentina 59*
Venezuela 85 Venezuela 60
Paraguay 100
Total 104 60
* No. 30 in 1998.
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5. ANALYSIS
PROPOSALS
ACTION
ONE FRAMEWORK:
Biasca´s Model
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6. Business Transformation
Analogy
MEDICINE ORGANIZATION
DIAGNOSIS ANALYSIS
PRESCRIPTION IDEAS
THERAPY ACTION
CONTRIBUTIONS:
• INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
• HOLISTIC, PRACTICAL INTEGRATION
OF CONCEPTS AND FADS

7. Competitive Position Assessment
How much change is needed?

8. Rod is 5 ft 10’’ tall and weights 190 lb
Question:
Is he fat?
If you think so,
estimate the overweight
Answer with a number (number
of pounds, if he is OK say 0 lb)

9. Question:
Estimate the Overweight
Estimate your risk of diseases
by using these interactive
calculators.
• BMI calculator
• Heart disease risk calculator
• Skin type calculator
• Target heart rate calculator
Determine your health status by using this
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Personal Health Scorecard

11. Diagnosis.
Competitive
Position
Assessment
Not Available Time Decreases
Competitive
Competitive
“Sick” Organization “Healthy” Organization
(Maximum deterioration, (No deterioration, only needs to
lack of Competitiveness) maintain its competitiveness)
CONTRIBUTIONS
• PRECISE COMPETITIVE ASSESSMENT.
• PERIOD OF TIME AVAILABLE FOR THE
CHANGE.
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12. The Innovation Formula
WHICH ARE THE PROPOSALS?
The Innovation Formula
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14. E (Strategy)

15. R (Restructuring: Processes,
Organization, Infrastructure)

16. A (Management)

17. Énfasis en:
T (Tecnologia)

18. P (Productivity, Quality, Time)

20. $ (Financial and legal structure)

21. Innovation Formula
? ?
Proposals?
CONTRIBUTIONS
• GENERAL INNOVATION FORMULA
C = a (R + E + A + T + P + $)
• DIFFERENT RECOMENDATIONS ACCORDING
TO THE COMPETITIVE POSITION.
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22. Execution
ACTION
Implement ideas to obtain different results
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23. Execution
The reality
• Low organization life (average is less than 50 years).
• Improvement efforts are not successful (more than 50% fail).
• No shortage of ideas (1,700 business books are published per
year
only in the US).
CONTRIBUTIONS
• ACTION STEPS ARE DEFINED FOR CONTINUOUS
AND DISCONTINUOUS CHANGE TO AVOID FAILURES.
• CULTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN COUNTRIES
AND REGIONS ARE CONSIDERED.
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24. La Acción
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25. G. Hofstede y O. Stevens
CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
Power Distribution
Uncertainty Tolerance
Individualism
Materialism

26. Mientras que el deporte nos divierte
tanto que nos puede hacer olvidar
hasta de comer y dormir. Por el
contrario, todos coincidimos en que el
trabajo no siempre es tan placentero
como quisiéramos.

27. Synthesis
SYNTHESIS
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28. Synthesis. The basic concept.
BASIC Concept
ADJUST
TO IMPROVE
COMPETITIVENES
S
Has more than 50 labels.
There is lack of competitiveness in Latin America
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30. MORE INFORMATION
Visit the bilingual Web site!
http://www.biasca.com