Acquisitions | Automation and reduction of manual toil |
Bozo explosion – a new executive hires people they know who hire people they know resulting in a culture shift | Business model transformation |
Compliance changes | Consolidation |
Continuous improvement – slow change | Cost reduction |
Culture shifts | Departmental reorganization |
Digitization | Diversification |
Divestitures | Downsizing |
Financial reorganization | Flattening – reducing levels in a org chart |
Geographic expansion | Geographic reorganization |
Hierarchical expansion – adding levels in an org chart | Horizontal integration – expanding at the same level of the value chain |
Insourcing | Joint ventures |
Leadership changes | Leadership reorganization – same leadership, different roles |
Market expansion | Mergers |
Modernization | New products and services |
Office relocations and reorganizations | Optimization |
Outsourcing | Power shifts – same leadership, new authority |
Process rationalization and re-engineering | Rebranding |
Relocation | Remove working changes |
Reorganization | Restructuring |
Retrenchment – scaling back a business | Spin-offs |
Standardization | Strategy changes |
Systems changes | Turnarounds – major change to a failing organization |
Vertical integration – expanding into new levels of the value chain |
