Focus on the net

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(2000), "Focus on the net", Measuring Business Excellence, Vol. 4 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/mbe.2000.26704dag.001

Focus on the net

TMI (http://www.tmi.co.uk/) has grown from Time Manager International, makers of impressive but rather complicated and expensive personal organizers to a fully-fledged consultancy offering training and strategy for personal and organizational development. While you can still buy the organizers online, of greater interest to Quality Focus is the "Inspiring change" companion site. This features an excellent news section, with many pieces more like short articles on change management, longer articles, case studies mainly UK-based) a discussion forum and a quiz area. Well worth a look.

http://www.a-t-a.com/start.htm is a commercial site but it does go some way to explaining the FIN system of change – overcoming peoples' resistance to change by recognising and catering for their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs. The model is well explained but there are plenty of plugs along the way!

The Change Management Resource Library (http://www.change-management.org/) is an extremely useful resource that catalogues nearly all the available material – books and articles – on managing organizational change. The books must be paid for, naturally enough, but we were heartened to see many of the articles were available straight from the index list.

BPR online learning centrehttp://www.prosci.com

Developed by ProSci as an extension to its product sales infrastructure, provides a wealth of free information across the area of business process re-engineering and change management. Although there are training programmes, toolkits and research reports for sale, free and current full-text articles provide a wealth of useful information on best practice, case studies and the strategic application of BPR. Contains a useful category index to these articles which have been gleaned from reputable technical and business journals. "Tutorials" allow the visitor to bone up on the disciple of BPR with step-by-step guides ranging from selecting the right team for your project to how to uncover best practice in your field. In an effort to promote the wider world of BPR among practitioners, a collection of mailing lists provides an opportunity for networking. Links to other useful sites further promote the exchange of information and ideas. All the free information available, in addition to bonuses such as links and opportunity for networking, makes this site a superb find.