Change Management is full of concepts and frameworks that are outdated and not based on empirical research. It seems that in the business world, we are very comfortable with concepts that sound like they make sense intuitively. If the concept is simple and interesting...
Move over older concepts and motivation theories such as Lewin’s, Bridges and Kubler-Ross models that are dated and not based on years of rigorous research….. It’s time we started to focus on well-researched and evidence-backed models that explain people’s behaviours...
Change management is a broad and diverse discipline with many facets. Just like other essential business domains such as Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, or Management, it encompasses a variety of sub-components. In Finance, for instance, there are sub-disciplines...
Workplace stress is a common topic in organisational wellbeing programmes. Change-related stress is less commonly addressed as a distinct category, even though it has a different profile, different causes, and requires a...
View the slide show Telling compelling stories of change is one of the most underinvested capabilities in organisational transformation. Leaders spend enormous effort designing the technical components of a change — the new system, the restructured process, the...
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How to prove the value of change management: a practical guide for 2026 Change management has a persistent credibility problem. Not because the discipline lacks value, but because the discipline has historically struggled to demonstrate its value in the language that...
In business literature having senior leader sponsorship and buy-in is always highlighted as one of the most if not the most important factor in determining successful initiative outcome. It is touted that without senior leaders to drive the initiative, it is...
A lot of change management approaches are based on viewing change as negative and how to manage this negative experience. The super popular Kubler-Ross model was used to explain the grieving process and later became adopted as a change model. Kubler-Ross...
Most seasoned executives will agree that implementing a strategy can be a lot more complex and challenging than the formulation of the strategy. If you read articles on strategy implementation you will find a myriad of factors to keep focused on including resourcing,...
A lot of organizations think of change management as something that can be outsourced to change managers or project managers. In this view, a piece of change can be managed as a project so that the rest of the business can focus on its business-as-usual activities....
Ray and Charles Eames, legendary mid-century designers, developed creative processes remarkably aligned with modern agile methodologies. Their approach emphasised iteration, resource respect, and systems thinking, offering valuable lessons for today's project teams...