We’ve talked a lot about change capability: what it means, how you can avoid change fatigue, and why it’s time to rethink our approach. But what are the benefits of building your organisation’s change capability? 1. Create a competitive advantage A change-ready organisation is agile and able to execute critical organisational strategies quickly, efficiently and effectively. 2. Improve employee engagement Building […]
At Change Synergy, we work with some of the region’s most progressive companies. A typical client has around 100 change initiatives happening at any one time. They tend to fall into three distinct categories. 1. Executive strategic, externally regulated or business improvement These are usually large, high profile, organisation-wide or multi-functional changes. They’re usually known about broadly […]
“Should we go agile? What does it even mean? Will it save money?” For years, consultants and thought leaders have been spruiking programs to introduce agile principles. Yet much of the discussion still focuses on theory, rather than how to achieve it. Our partner in Switzerland, AGILITYINSIGHTS, has spent the last 15 years researching and working […]
Change your approach to Change Management “The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.” Said Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who grew an inheritance of two small newspapers and a radio station into a mighty, worldwide empire. Say what you will about Murdoch’s politics, […]
“One major reason organizations struggle is because they treat both leadership development and change management as separate rather than interrelated challenges.” – R. Quinn and R. Quinn in HBR An ASX top 20 company was boosting its information security. Soon, all people leaders would be responsible for auditing their team members’ access to key systems – a […]
A major retailer set out to transform its business, aiming to leapfrog its competitors. To do that, they knew they needed to upgrade their foundational technology first. So they got started on the ‘must have’ technology projects, even though they had already started talking about transformation. Employees were confused – were they upgrading technology or […]
#1 Organisational Priority: Adapt to Change “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” Often attributed to the late, great physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking, this quote’s provenance is actually in question. Which is good, because we disagree with it. Why is Stephen Hawking wrong? Capability is the quality of ‘being capable’ – a capacity to do […]
I have some exciting news to share with you – we have changed our name from Changefirst Australia and New Zealand to Change Synergy! As you may know, we have represented Changefirst in Australia and New Zealand for the past 9 years and we are thrilled to continue this long association under our new brand – Change Synergy. […]
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