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hi, i'm translating some company questionnaire where among such project team characteristics as 'sourcing', 'creativity', 'teamwork', 'capacity, etc. the 'outside-in' characteristic is mentioned. what could be meant by that? any synonyms and explanations are welcome

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Elizabeth Lyons Jan 19, 2006:
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ability to adapt and respond to changing external environment

'Outside in' change refers to an organization's capacity to respond and adapt to an increasingly turbulent external environment. Managing change from the 'inside out' refers to planned organizational transformations required to renew, reconfigure, or reposition the organization for sustained competitive advantage. Both perspectives of strategic change are interrelated and involve analyses of environment, leadership, strategy, structure, process, and human resource dimensions of organizations.





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PDF] eRA Project Team Meeting MinutesFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
eRA Project Team Meeting Minutes. Date:. Tuesday, July 26, 2005 ... people from the outside in this thought process as they build their organizational ...
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SideBars:outSIDE in. Concurrent Instructional Design Using a Lean Team Approach ... Don't hide your design and development till the project is finished. ...
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Article 311- Roadmap for Leading a Project TeamOne place is outside, in interactions with other people. ... You’ll have a project team that’s energized, productive, successful, and eager and ready for ...
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Outside In - October 2004The DPC Rules Committee did not approve that recommendation, he said, directing the city manager instead to create a city/DPC project team that would ...
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Putting Six Sigma to Work in Business-to-Business SalesFigure 1: Outside-in Approach Starts with Customer Loyalty ... The project team may want to define the universe of customers based on region, revenue size ...
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Designing E-learning From the Outside-In - LTI MagazineOnce the e-learning is designed along with the appropriate blend of other training methods, use the project team's expertise for technical and ...
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(The first definition is from Gonzaga University, I neglected to include this reference in error).
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receptivity to external influences

Many decision-makers of large organizations have a vision of their organization that is limited by what goes on internally within their organization. They are unable to appreciate how external factors limit or influence their organization. This is a trap and the outside-in management technique is designed to help senior managers to get a feel of how their organization is placed viz-a-viz the outside environment.

Several techniques are used for this, one of which is to bring together all the stakeholders of the organization and try to understand what they feel about the organization.

In the context of individual abilities, outside-in ability can be viewed as the ability of the individual to transcend the organizational viewpoint and to perceive the organization in the light of external factors, in other words, his receptivity to external factors, and the extend to which his vision about the organization is influenced by external realities.

For more details, please see this web site:

http://www.imaginiz.com/provocative/imaginization/flysight.h...
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agree James Girard : exactly
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