Things to do over the holidays in order to be prepared for 2008.

1. Enjoy your holidays. Recharge your batteries. It’s a long year ahead and you need to pace yourself. Then, once you’ve recharged…
2. Complete the test in the green book to see how much of Change Management you’ve understood. Check your answers against the answer sheet given to you.
3. Complete your summary notes of Change Management and Qantas. Take some time to study these and to memorise the acrostics we have developed in class.
4. Page 513 of your text contains a good topic test of Change Management to retest your knowledge after you have studied from your study notes.
5. OK. Now that you have got Change Management under control its time to read ahead on Marketing. Skim through Topic 2 (pg. 198-289) to give you an idea of what the topic contains.
6. Read through Chapter 9 (pg 200-214) to be prepared for the first few lessons back.
7. Skim through your pink book. Try and answer what you can from your existing Year 11 knowledge. If you find the time start working through the rest of the book.
8. That’s it. Not too much but enough to imbed your knowledge of Change Management and to ensure you’ve reviewed Marketing and are ready to go for 2008.
9. If you want to know what to do beyond this add a comment and I’ll get back to you.

Today’s Acrostic is for Change & Social Responsibility with thanks to Hannah & Tahlia.

Students Eat Quirky Turkey, Gobble Everything

Which stands for;

• Social responsibility
• Ecological responsibility
• Quality of working life
• Technology
• Globalisation and cultural diversity
• E-commerce

Every business undergoes change and, as we have seen from our case studies, some do this more successfully (SPC & General Motors) than others (Ansett). However successfully managing change is not only about profit (the bottom line) but also about how well you fulfill your obligations to other stakeholders aside from just the owners and managers. This is often referred to as the “triple bottom line” which states that a business should fulfill three goals (economic, social and environmental) in ordered to be considered succesful.