En tid präglad av intensiv förändringstakt ställer nya krav på projektledarskapet. Bland våra kunder uppmärksammar vi fler och fler projektledare som vittnar om att de upplever en förskjutning av projektledarrollen där kraven på klassisk projektstyrning bibehålls samtidigt som kraven på de mer processuella och mellanmänskliga kompetenser intensifieras. En förskjutning som blir tydligare i takt med att projekten mer och mer relaterar till organisatoriska förändringar.
Många projekt mynnar ut i någon form av organisatorisk förändring. Man kan kategorisera projekt och graden av organisatorisk förändring i nivåer:
Förnyelse – fri förändringsprocess - Projektet syftar till att skapa det nya utan större hänsyn till det befintliga. Fundamentala och existentiella grunder såväl som dynamiska delar som produkter, tjänster, metoder, strukturer och kulturer skapas. Projektet präglas av en …
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Tags: change management, Förändringsprocess, Henrik Challis, Intressentanalys, Processledning, Projektledning, systemisk
Experience Simon Sinek when he explains how The Why plays a critical role not only as sensemaking in the workplace but also in connection to your brand and in communication with customers.
Henrik Challis
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Tags: Burning platform, change management, Henrik Challis, Purpose, The Why
Forskare på Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute har upptäckt att när minst 10 procent av befolkningen har en orubblig åsikt och kommunicerar denna med övriga kommer majoriteten i samhället att anta denna åsikt. Slutsatserna publicerades i nätversionen av tidskriften Physical Review E den 22 juli 2011; Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities
”När antalet engagerade opinionsbildare är under 10 procent sker inga framsteg i spridningen av deras idéer i systemet. Det skulle bokstavligen ta lika lång tid jämförbart med universums ålder för att denna storlek på grupp skulle uppnå en majoritet” säger Boleslaw Szymanski, professor på Rensselaer. ”I det ögonblick då antalet når över 10 procent, så sprider sig idéen som en löpeld.”
Som exempel kan nämnas händelserna i Tunisien och Egypten …
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Tags: change management, forandringsledelse, forskning, förändringsledarskap, Henrik Challis
Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, the majority of the society will always adopt their belief. The findings were published in the July 22, 2011, online edition of the journal Physical Review E in an article titled “Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities.”
“When the number of committed opinion holders is under 10 percent, there is no progress in the spread of ideas throughout the system. ”It would literally take the amount of time comparable to the age of the universe for this size group to reach the majority,” said SCNARC Director Boleslaw Szymanski, the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at Rensselaer. “Once that number …
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Tags: Change, Change Agents, Change communication, change management, Change process
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
The Arab Spring is an amazing example of emergence in the process of change. This speech given by Riyaad Minty, Manager of Al Jazeera Network’s social media initiatives, shows how people using social media to connect and communicate develop the needed critical mass to successfully overthrow the government of Egypt.
Complexity theory and studies of complex adaptive systems tells us that the amount of connections between the agents or the parts is a critical factor enabling emergent change. In this speech Riyaad Minty tells us how Twitter together with Al Jazeera enabled (or facilitated) the Arab Spring.
For further reading I highly recommend Margreth Wheatly’s article on emergence and social innovations.
Henrik Challis
Source: Media Evolution – The Conference in Malmö Sweden 27th of …
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Tags: Change Agents, change management, Change process, Emergence, Systemic
Theory U: Leading from the future as it emerges – The social technology of presencing.
In this amazing book, Otto Scharmer invites us to see the world in new ways—and to learn from the future as it emerges. Fundamental problems, as Einstein once noted, cannot be solved at the same level of thought that created them.
Theory U explores a whole new territory of scientific research and personal leadership. By moving through the “U” we learn to connect to our originating Self. We travel down the left side of the “U” to find ourselves in the realm of presencing, where we learn to sense the future that is seeking to emerge. At that level of operating, we experience the opening of our …
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Tags: change management, Emergence, leadership, management, otto scharmer, Theory
I have just rediscovered Margaret Wheatley’s work, as I tend to do now and then. This article introduces how emergence as a change theory, offers methods and practices to accomplish systems-wide change.
http://www.margaretwheatley.com/articles/emergence.html
Henrik Challis
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Tags: Change, change management, Change process, Emergence, Social Innovation, Systemic
Change management is all about activating hidden ressources within the system in order to change behaviours. Play and fun is one of powerful way of doing it which this commercial from VW(or actually DDB Stockholm) visualizes.
Mick Cordero
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Tags: behaviour, Change, change management, Fun, play
Emergent complexity can arise from simple interactions between agents following rules. The complexity that arises is suprising and challenges our assumptions about whether order comes from the top or the bottom.
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Tags: Change, change management, Change process, Emergence, Systemic
