Appetite for Change

Image via Wikipedia The McKinsey Quarterly published an excellent paper by Carolyn Aiken and Scott Keller, that explains why change management theory often doesn’t work just like that. The background to their work is a 2008 McKinsey survey confirming that the success rate of change programs remains stuck at around 30%, more than 10 years [...]

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The well known UK based Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) conducted an online poll among its HR community to determine the most important “HR skills for survival”. More precisely, the respondents were asked to chose three competencies they believed were most important to establish the function’s effectiveness and credibility in the organisation. The [...]

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IBM has just published a new global survey among more than 1000 CEO’s to find out what the company of the future would look like. The findings highlight the growing importance of successful change management: Organisations are bombarded by change and many are struggling to keep up CEO’s view more demanding customers not as a [...]

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