At the core of every successful change effort I would argue that we find a democratic nerve center – an effort to bring key stakeholders on board through heavy involvement and giving everyone else in the organization who is affected by the transition the invitation to get involved and make themselves heard.
All to often we limit the work with designing the change to a small group of “chosen ones” leaving the rest of the organization on hold until they are hit by the tsunami “roll out” – a phase in the process where it’s hard or even impossible to make a positive contribution. Doing this we miss out on the collective knowledge and creativity in the organization and looses the …
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Tags: Change communication, change management, Change process, Democratic
The interfaces between project management and change management overlap, and they are certainly interdependent when it comes to successfully delivering value by supporting the strategic initiatives of the business.
To put it roughly the project management team handles the technical and administrative side of the project, whereas the change management team handles the people side of the project.Project management is key when it comes to initiating, planning, executing and monitoring the projects activities and deliverables. They ensure a strong solution design backed up with detailed project plans.Change management prepares the organization for the project impact, manages the transition from how we do things today to how they will be done tomorrow – and puts special efforts into reinforcing and anchoring the change into the …
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Tags: Change, change management, Change process, Project management
Who is responsible for the development of knowledge and capabilities of the employees in the work place and making them stick? The employees? The trainers? The HR-department? The Managers?
Training of employees and managers has for a long time been viewed as “an event” that takes place from day 1 at 8.00 and ends at day 2 at 17:00. Key factors for successful training have been about the ability of the participants to acquire knowledge in relation to the quality of the training material and the presentational skills of the trainer.
A golden rule often referred to as “The Brinkerhoff Rule”, suggests that the optimal return of investment of learning is a combination of elements, where 40% of the learning can be …
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When discussing strategy, leaders often invoke some version of a vision, a mission, a purpose, a plan, or a set of goals. The author calls these “the corporate five”. Each is important in driving execution, no doubt, but none should be mistaken for a strategy. The corporate five may help bring your strategy to life, but they do not give you a strategy to begin with. According to the author, Ken Favaro, the “strategic five are:
1. What business or businesses should you be in?
2. How do you add value to your businesses?
3. Who are the target customers for your businesses?
4. What are your value propositions to those target customers?
5. What capabilities are essential to adding value to your businesses and differentiating …
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Tags: strategy, strategy realization, strategydevelopment, Åsa Dourén
Mindbending: How Thinking Changes the Shape of Your Brain—and Your Physical Abilities
Et bevis på hvorfor visualiseringsøvelser og vores evne til at drømme (eller negativ tænkning!) manifesterer sig i virkelige resultater – amazing stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-v-IMSKOtoE
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New technology is changing how we work, interact and organize our selves. Take part of IBM’s 2018 vision on computer/smartphone technology here in this Daily Mail article.
Henrik Challis
More: Michell Zappa’s mapping of emerging technology
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Tags: Business Intelligence, Innovation, omvärld, spanning, Technology
Karl McFaul is the avant-gardist combining his experience within arts & science, integrated communications strategy, IT and business agility in the development of an innovation culture around the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden.
In this talk he presents what he believes is the next step in how we organize ourselves driven by new technologies, with a vision for sustainable development, and how a research facility, the public sphere as well as businesses, can collaborate in a regional innovation system. The ESS is a partnership of 17 European nations constructing the world’s next generation large-scale science facility just outside of Lund. The facility will produce neutrons for studying materials where secrets of the nano-world is to be unlocked, where future …
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Tags: complex adaptive systems, Complexity, evolution, Innovation, Organisation
Change is a fact of life. In companies, it is a natural response to competition and shifts in the socio-economic environment and a route to gaining advantage and building business performance proactively. But, for change to be successful, managers need to ensure that employees both understand and support it.
Employees, on the other hand, have to actively seek information and contribute to a constructive dialogue on change implementation.
Change in companies happens when people choose to change behaviour and stick to this new behaviour until it is really implemented. Change communication is about motivating people to want and embrace the change. At the heart of change communication is the ability to motivate leaders and employees to engage in change management.
Badly planned and …
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Tags: Change, Change communication, change management, Change process
Listen to this great BBC programme where “Carolyn Quinn, BBC Radio 4, looks under the bonnet of leadership in this two-part series, from business to politics and sport.
What traits do you need to become a great leader? Is leadership ‘in the blood’ or can you train people to develop the right skills?
Ming Campbell and Michael Howard reflect on their time as political leaders. Both suffered perception problems during their time at the top, from jibes about their age and looks. Developing a thick skin, they say, is the key.
Dragon’s Den investor Deborah Meaden describes herself as a ‘born entrepreneur’. What does she think makes a good leader?
Plato began the study of leadership in 350 BC. Since then, …
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Tags: Johanne Eriksen, leadership, Leadership development
I have read an interesting article from Harvard Business Review written by Jonathan Gosling and Henry Mintzberg, one of my favorite authors when it comes to business and management. The article is about successful managers who think their way through their jobs, using five different mind-sets that allow them to deal adeptly with the world around them:
An analytical mind-set ensures that you make decisions based on in-depth data–both quantitative and qualitative.
A worldly mind-set provides you with cultural and social insights essential to operating in diverse regions, serving varied customer segments.
A collaborative mind-set enables you to orchestrate relationships among individuals and teams producing your products and services.
An action mind-set energizes you to create and expedite the best plans for achieving your strategic …
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Tags: leadership, manager, mental models, mind-set, Åsa Dourén
