Strategic Essentials for Change is your one-stop guide to determining what is changing. The information generated by the steps outlined in this guide will informs your change strategy. For example, if the vision of an organization has changed, how different is this new vision with the current state vision? Following the flow through the guide outlines a gap and what to do with the gap. Whether your tasked with an organizational design, determining organizational capability and operating changes, determining what is changing for the organization and the roles within it, this guide will be tool that informs your focused change strategy. The utility of this guide is endless, use the framework to build your own strategic essentials or distribute the guide to other change teams as they diagnose change for high state initiatives. This guide will help you think through what is changing for the specific topic of interest.