A project involving four small businesses in the West Midlands is described. The Performance Improvement Programme comprises a productivity audit, monthly action learning meetings for the managing directors and in‐plant action learning groups. Specific results have been achieved in improved...

Increasing attention is being directed towards smaller and medium-sized enterprises in many countries as a means of reviving the industrial base. In this paper the authors argue that implementation of such an industry policy calls for fundamental changes and developments in attitudes and...

The Scenario We argue in this article that people and their organisations will have to make fundamental alterations in how they operate in a fast‐changing world. Because traditional management courses will not meet this need, a learning by doing organisational change programme is suggested....

Who's going to own our problems? The pace and complexity of problems we are having to face are increasing. They are not only bewildering but they seem to defy all our conventional wisdoms. As just one example, high unemployment and stubbornly high inflation just did not exist side by side a few...