Appetite for Change

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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The Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) just published the outcome of a survey conducted among Fortune 1000 companies to identify the Top 5 leadership competencies of tomorrow. Respondents were asked to write in the top five words or phrases that came to mind to describe the leadership competencies they perceive will be critical in the [...]

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Here is my pick of recent change management articles and interviews : Managing Change in the Creative Industries, by Nathalie Harrison, Senior Business Consultant, Sony Professional. the media industry is one sector that has experienced record levels of change and faces some unique challenges when it comes to change management: new markets such as 3D, [...]

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With a success rate for change initiatives as low as 30%, you may say there is no such thing as an easy change to implement. The assumption is certainly a good one to have to make sure you don’t underestimate your change management efforts required. Some changes prove to be more difficult than others to [...]

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Guest Author: Stephen Warrilow Before starting out on your change management initiative – some strategic questions to ask yourself. This list is not exhaustive but is intended as an aide-memoire to kick start your thought processes and to help you avoid the 70% failure rate. (1) Have you thoroughly addressed the originating strategic review questions? [...]

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“How can we … free ourselves from our addiction to episodic change and move to a much more healthy habit of continuous business improvement?” is the very pertinent question asked by a senior BP executive, Fiona Macleod, at the recent Wharton Leadership Conference. Her thoughts on the subject are interesting as she has lead several [...]

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On his excellent blog, “think for a change”, Paul Williams is asking: “what kind of innovator are you?”, referring to all the innovation specialty areas one can think of such as R&D, innovation management, new product development etc. Reading this article reminded me of how change management/leadership/facilitation is often seen as a vast, unclear and [...]

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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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