Organizations pursue strategic change in response to changes in the external environment and to improve firm performance. Managing large-scale organizational change has proven difficult and as many as 70-75% of all planned change initiatives fail to reach their goals. This course provides the students with an analytical framework that allows them to better understand, organize and manage planned change processes in organizations. Students are trained in practical application of the framework through the use of teaching cases. Topics include: analyzing the context and content of change, making implementation choices, understanding and handling reactions to change, change agent skills and roles, and managing the transition.