The Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary

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change

... the passing from one condition, quality, circumstance, set of characteristics or frame of time to another. The risk taker, such as a business decision maker, is a agent of change, i.e. a person who takes responsibility while taking charge of producing an effect. Wikipedia comments on change agents under organization development.

Look over the resource file, About Economic Development, to see that a definition of economic development practitioners identifies them as change agents when their work has an effect the growth and increase in vitality of the places they represent. It is referred to as a change initiative when at the outset of an enterprise and economic development process, as well as all other development processes, a leadership plans and implements affects,

A definition of change management is provided at www.indiana.edu. Well designed systems organized to manage change initiatives (... actions taken to implement a transformation process) can be broken down into (1) Strategic organization (planning) to begin; (2) operational implementation (communicating), for example, networking and gathering location data during a site selection project; (3) problem solving; (4) evaluation; and, (5) the decision making (risk taking) as well as control that is essential throughout.

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definition of change agent / define change management / definition of change initiatives

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