Key issues for planning and implementing organizational transitions

The author attempts to integrate several sources of information on transition management and to show strategy and implementation. He builds on theoretical models of the management of change in current research by adding lessons learned in current industrial practice. Particular reference is made to the work of a research team from his Department charged by NASA with researching transitional management theory and practice. Three sources of information are used: interviews with top managers of high-tech companies which had recently undergone significant change, a questionnaire sent to 250 high-tech Fortune 500 companies, and the literature on the management of change extant today