Ms. Albanese and Sunflower Incorp. - 651 Words

Questions 1. How well did Ms. Albanese manage the pricing and purchasing changes at Sunflower? Albanese was not successful at managing the pricing and purchasing changes. However, she was able to pinpoint the problems at Sunflower Incorporated which included the lack of standardization. The proper strategies were not used in order to manage the change properly. She did not think the process the whole way through including managing and implementing the changes. 2. Describe how the changes were implemented successfully or not. Most importantly the biggest change that was not implemented successfully was the lack of communication. Another issue is that the change program was not effective. Ms. Albanese never received a pricing or purchasing report that was requested in her email from any of the regional managers. This goes to show and proves that the changes were not implemented successfully. 3. How would you find out information needed to analyze the success or failure of this change project? In order to analyze the success or failure of this change project I believe that feedback would need to be gathered from all of the regional managers. A survey could be mailed and or emailed to gain the appropriate responses. Since Ms. Albanese did not receive anything back from her email, incentives such as a discount or gift card could be given for the feedback received in a timely manner. This will increase the managers involvement for providing the information needed in order to