It is the year of rabbit in the Chinese New Year of 2023. A quarter of the world’s population celebrates this. It is also the first year that a lot of countries are emerging from Covid and where there are little or no restrictions on travel and...
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How to be more strategic in managing change – Infographic
Most change practitioners are hired to support an initiative whilst others are supporting the business. Irrespective of the role, there are ways to be more strategic in managing change. Here in this infographic we highlight the top 6 tips in being more strategic in...
Change management software benefits: how the right tools improve transformation outcomes
The question of whether change management software makes a difference is no longer really open. The data is consistent and has been replicated across multiple credible research bodies. The more interesting question, for a change practitioner evaluating software for...
4 common assumptions about change saturation that are misleading
Change saturation is a common term used by change practitioners to describe a picture where there may be too many changes being implemented at the same time. The analogy is that of a cup with limited capacity, where if too much change is poured into a fixed volume,...
Strategic change management: how to shift from project delivery to organisational leadership
When change management operates strategically, it looks nothing like what most change practitioners spend most of their time doing. Strategic change management is not better communication planning or more rigorous impact assessment, though both of those things matter....
The change and disruption in Ukraine show how complex and dynamic the change process can be
Assessing the change process and conducting effective change impact assessment are critical tasks for the change manager. The reason is that a detailed change impact assessment is a map from which change interventions are pieced together to drive and manage...
As a change manager how do I improve my company’s agility
It is 2022 and a year ago most of us were praying for the end of Covid so that we can move back to ‘normal’. One year on, here we are again. Covid disruptions are even more severe and widespread. Not only are we still amidst continuous business disruptions compared...
How to implement change process when your business is not change mature
Often we hear change practitioners call out the challenges of working with organisations that are not change mature. Yes it is easier for change practitioners to work within organisations that are more mature in managing change. This means that...
Data-driven change management: why methodology alone is no longer enough
Data-driven change management: why methodology alone is no longer enough For the first twenty years of change management as a discipline, the primary question practitioners wrestled with was methodological: how do you follow the right sequence of steps to prepare...
Building a Data-Driven Change Management Environment
Most organisations today would not dream of running a marketing function without dashboards, attribution models, and conversion analytics. They would not manage a supply chain without real-time inventory data, nor run an HR function without workforce metrics tracking...
The one approach every initiative should incorporate post-Covid
The past 1.5 years has been super challenging for most organisations. The constant stop and start interruptions of Covid has taken a toll on most employees. One minute we are going back to work the next minute we are not. One minute we...
Behavioural science approach to managing change: The science you need
Adopting a behavioural science approach to managing behaviour change means leveraging scientific research about human behaviours and using this to better manage employee behaviour and change. A lot of the common practices in change management are not always based on...