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Are You Too Fixated on the Change Maturity of Your Organisation?

Are You Too Fixated on the Change Maturity of Your Organisation?

As a change management practitioner, your mission is to guide organisations through change, building their ability to manage transitions effectively and sustainably. A major part of this work often involves helping organisations develop their "change maturity" — the...

The meaning of managing change

The meaning of managing change

Is change management just a job or a career? When you clock in and clock out everyday do you ever wonder what is the purpose of all this work? Yes, your natural response could be, well, managing change helps improve employee work experience and we help company land...

There is no singular change curve

There is no singular change curve

There is no change curve.  A single change curve doesn't exist in most organisations.  The concept of a single change curve means you're always looking at it from the myopic lens of a single project or a single change.  If we adopt a...

Win over stakeholders with a single view of change in weeks

Win over stakeholders with a single view of change in weeks

We’ve all heard about how change is the only constant and that change is intensifying and not going away. On top of increasing digitisation, we have Covid, extreme weather disruptions as well as other company changes. Not all changes can be planned for. Change is a...

Three Approaches to Deriving a Single View of Change

Three Approaches to Deriving a Single View of Change

Ask any senior change practitioner what they wish they had, and a single view of change sits near the top of the list. Not another dashboard, not another status report, but a genuine, consolidated picture of every change impacting a given group of people at any point...

Is it useful to label change as positive or negative?

Is it useful to label change as positive or negative?

You may have been asked to rate change into either a positive or negative change to classify initiatives and thereby use the classification to aid change implementation.  After all, we all know of initiatives that nearly everyone sees as negative and other...

What I learnt about managing multiple changes came from finance

What I learnt about managing multiple changes came from finance

The concept of managing a set of projects or initiatives may be new in the area of change management, but it is commonplace for many large financial services firms in the project management arena. The idea is that across a large number of projects, these are then...

How to Better Manage a Change Portfolio: A Practical Framework

How to Better Manage a Change Portfolio: A Practical Framework

Most organisations have become reasonably competent at managing individual change programmes. Project sponsors are appointed, change managers are assigned, stakeholder plans are drafted, and communications are issued on schedule. Yet despite this programme-level...