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Introduction
We are living in a world full of changes in business affect organizations at different levels and grades either big or small organizations. The decisive factor for any organization to keep high performance is how to deal with this change. Changes may be planned or emergent, opportunity or threat, radical or superficial and the only constant fact for any change is "it causes change" and the effect depends on how you manage this change to achieve your objectives.

Managing Change in Organization

During this part we will describe a significant organizational change happened during the last two years to one organizations considered as market leaders in its market and business category, we will show what were the external and internal drivers for this change and what were the objectives of the company during making this change.
This company faced a significant change that can disturb any company but as they have a good change management strategy and clear objectives they managed this change in a good way through many models and techniques, sure they should do more and more to achieve the global objectives and maintain this great name as a global market leader we will discuss the case of Mead Johnson Nutrition Company.
Mead Johnson is one of global market leaders in infants' formulas and children nutrition. It offers more than 70 brands in more than 50 countries worldwide.
It is founded at 1900 in Jersey City (USA) by Edward Mead Johnson after he left Johnson & Johnson Company which he co-founded with his brother.1 It is mission is to create nutritional brands and products trusted to give infants and children the best start in life. The company's (Enfa) family products including Enfamil® is the world leading franchise in pediatric nutrition1.
They spent millions of dollars for research and development to produce new brands match and meet human nutritional needs during infancy and adulthood. One of the clearest examples that show their

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