Appetite for Change

An ex-MBA colleague of mine wrote his final dissertation on a subject close to something like “using the Kotter change leadership framework to acquire new clients”. At the time I really thought it was a bit of a long shot to make this analogy, until I recently received an unexpected request from an entrepreneur struggling [...]

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Pretty much any recently democratically elected head of state made it to the top thanks to their ability to convince voters they would bring the best CHANGE: change of politics, change of style, change of people. Ironically, this is also true for re-elected candidates: they were able to convince they would bring change in continuity! [...]

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I couldn’t seriously have this change leadership blog without mentioning the work of John Kotter. His 8 steps for leading change model formed the basis of the knowledge and experience I personaly gathered in the field, first during my MBA, then in the consulting firm where I was employed. For those who are not familiar [...]

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This week I enjoyed reading 2 articles from the HBR blogs on 2 very different subjects: Scott Anthony reveals the results of his survey about the most disruptive companies of the decade. Precisely, the question was: “Which companies do you think have done the best job of driving growth through disruption — transforming what exists [...]

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New year, new decade, new changes: M&A’s, strategy changes, new markets, new products, new customers, new sustainable development policies, new ERP/Information systems. Everywhere is more change. Here are 5 new year’s resolutions for better anticipating, preparing, leading and managing change in 2010: Assess your Change Capacity: to prepare change implementation, analyse its strategic compatibility, attractiveness [...]

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This week: Managing the Transition (of british public service) to Total Place: on PublicNet, the UK public service community website, a look at the new major initiative launched in the Treasury’s Operational Efficiency Programme. Total Place is designed to map, analyse and eventually improve the way public money is spent in a selected area. More [...]

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My pick of this weeks change leadership related web content: GM: cultural changes are apparently under way according to this article from the Detroit Free Press. A less formal dress code, “dress appropriately”, has been decided to encourage personal decision-making; it’s probably a good initiative when you think that one person called HR 2 or 3 times to [...]

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I recently  had the pleasure to meet Lizette Tucker from US based firm Arrowhead Strategic Consultants in Paris. Lizette is looking to expand her business in France, as she seems to like our country very much. I did warn her that the initial enthusiasm may fade away as she slowly discovers the downsides of our [...]

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I’d like to share with you a few slides which purpose is to give some hints for successfully implementing a sustainable development initiative, viewed from a behavioural change angle. Acting “greener” is something relevant to many of us (it should even be all of us) and is very much about how we can install new [...]

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The Blogue Marketing Interactif, from Quebec, features an article about how Booz Allen Hamilton successfully implemented its Enterprise 2.0 solution. The case was presented at the Montreal Webcom 09 conference by Walton Smith . The key learning for businesses interested in implementing new collaborative solutions is that not less than 50% of the budget was spent [...]

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