Let’s first define Strategic Change. A restructuring of an organization’s business or marketing plan that is typically performed in order to achieve an important objective. For example, a strategic change might include shifts in a corporation’s policies, target market, mission or organizational structure. — BusinessDictionary There’s no doubt that Strategic Change–or any change of such […]
Tag Archives | Change Management
The Agony and the Ecstacy of a Change Manager
Editor’s Note: Editor’s Note: Ron Leeman is a world-recognized Change Manager and author of several Change, Process, and Project training guides on Flevy. You can also learn more about Ron and his approach to Change in our interview with him. * * * * There is a famous line in the 1965 film The Agony and the Ecstacy about […]
What Factors Truly Drive Change?
A couple decades ago, back in 1992, W. Warner Burke and George Litwan collated a number of organizational change models into one holistic view of how organizational structure and design affects change. With this research, Burke and Litwan developed the Causal Model of Organizational Performance and Change, otherwise known as the Burke-Litwin Model. Their seminal framework […]
Organizational Culture Change: What Is It Exactly and Why Is It So Difficult?
I have been meaning to tackle this issue for some while now, because I have to admit that I do not fully comprehend the concept “organisational culture change,” so I am using it as a bit of a learning exercise. I have also seen a few articles on the subject of late and I wanted […]
Organizational Change That Sticks
This is the true story of two organizations that have recently undergone significant change. Economics forced them to re-examine their key business processes and staff allocations in order to continue to survive and hopefully – grow. I have changed their names in order to protect the innocent. We’ll call them Organization Opportunity and Organization Challenge. […]
Change: Measuring Outcomes
My article called 70% of Change Management Initiatives Fail–REALLY? has now hit over 5950 views along with 66 Likes and 21 Comments on LinkedIn. In the main, this failure rate stems from none other than McKinsey and Company who since 2006 have surveyed some 6,800 “CEO’s and senior executives” who had experienced a significant performance transformation […]
We Are the (Change) Champions
Queen sang … We are the champions, my friends, and we’ll keep on fighting ’til the end. We are the champions, we are the champions, no time for losers, ’cause… A fitting anthem for Change Champions I think which is what this article is about… Change Champions as a network of individuals who are appointed […]
The Art of Managing Change, in Personal and Business Life
Change is the only constant. – Heraclitus, c. 535 – 475 BC We live in a world of change. Everyday brings new experiences and new things into our lives. Most of them pass without notice, some are more important, and some are even monumental. Maybe we take a different route to work in the morning… […]
8 Transformational Levers for BIG Organizational Change
There are plenty of theories on change management, and this isn’t one of them. This is a simple checklist for anyone driving big, complex organizational change. But first, you have to recognize when you are facing what we’ll call “Big Change.” Some examples: You are changing leaders, and the new person is bringing new “direction.” […]
Flevy Author Spotlight: Our Interview with World-recognized Change Leader and Flevy Author, Ron Leeman
In 2012, Ron Leeman was awarded the distinguished title of Change Leader by the World HRD Congress. He has led numerous global Change and Project Management initiatives. Ron has also published numerous frameworks on Flevy related to Change, Process, and Project Management. These frameworks are his own, developed through his extensive experience of over 40 years […]
Flevy’s Definitive Guide to Operations
This is a guide to navigating Flevy to find the documents and other resources you need related to Business Operations. “Operations” is a broad, vague term. It can convey a lot of different meanings to different people. If you don’t find what you are looking for in this article, please email us at support@flevy.com. First, a very […]
The Highway of Change and a Practical Framework Approach to Change
Since Monday, 9th January 2015, my free Flevy download Practical Framework Approach to Change has been downloaded over 500 times. The document contains just a “snapshot” of my approach, rather than going into any explicit details about the tools and techniques related to each of the framework components. The level of interest shown has spurred me into writing […]
