Wolstenholme, Eric, "Developing a Balanced View of Management Ecology", 1994
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Many approaches to change management havetended to focus on specific dimensions or functions of organisations at theexpense of others. For example, there has been organisational analysis,strategic analysis and more recently business process analysis. Strategy,organisational structure and process are inextricably linked via informationand delays and form a management ‘ecology’, where changes to any one of theelements have repercussion for all. This paper suggest that a balancedunderstanding of the organisational ecology is required to generate effectiveand appropriate planning and change which the author is currently using systemdynamics modeling to assist change management. The paper is written to assistSystem Dynamics in bringing the role of System Dynamics as a change managementtool to the attention of managers, at a time when there is much confusion aboutalternative approaches to analyzing organisational change.