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Growth is optional."
ORGANISATIONAL
CHANGE
WHY
Successful adaptation to change is as crucial within an
HOW
Successful change must involve
For Whom
Stakeholders are people who have some form of interest in the
change, whether they are the targets of the change, managers
or other interested parties.
Sponsors are people with power who have a direct interest in
the project. As described elsewhere, you need to carefully
manage your sponsors to gain support and avoid opposition,
especially where they are also Targets.
Targets are people who will intentionally be affected by the
change. You many want them to change what they do and
think, or even what they feel and believe. Deeper change, is,
of course more difficult.
Examples
Clients (Business Clients or Consumers)
Competitors
Employees (Management)
Third parties (Suppliers and Business partners)
Capital suppliers, Investors, Shareholders
Government (local, national, International)
Communities (environmental, professionals)
FORCES OF CHANGE
Resistance To Change
Individual resistance
Habit
Security
Economic factors
Fear of the unknown
Selective information processing
Organizational resistance
Structural inertia
Limited focus of change
Group inertia
Threat to expertise
Threat to established power relationships
Threat to established resource allocations
Overcoming resistance to
change
Education and communication
Participation
Facilitation and support
Negotiation
Manipulation and cooptation
Coercion
Level
Level
Level
3 - Reengineering (Structurally
Changing) Your Processes
Either as an aftermath or consequence of
level one or two work or as an
independent action, level three work
focuses on fundamentally changing how
work is accomplished. Rather than focus
on modest improvements, reengineering
focuses on making major structural
changes to everyday with the goal of
substantially improving productivity,
efficiency, quality or customer
satisfaction.
Level
Success
= Measurement X Method X
Control X Focused Persistence X Consensus
Like any equation with multiplication, a
high value of one variable can compensate
for lower levels on other variables. Also
like any equation with multiplication, if one
variable equals 0, the result is zero.