Recently a client asked me to prepare some thoughts on how change management has changed during the pandemic. Her team wanted to know how organisations are adjusting their change management approach, what’s working well, and what pitfalls to be careful of.I was thrilled to consolidate my thinking and research into the topic, and now I’m […]
Category: Prioritisation
5 Strategies to Reduce Change Saturation and Change Fatigue
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he took their product line from 350 down to 10. He chose to make 10 excellent products and ditch the remaining 340. Jobs famously said, “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means […]
How to Win the Balancing Act: Change Demand and Capacity Management
We’ve written previously about the importance of balancing organisational capacity for change with change demand. Organisations that fail to do this will stagnate and be poor competitors in the marketplace. Organisations that do it well will achieve greater ROI, implementation success rates, and achieve their strategic objectives. After all, our ability to execute organisational strategies quickly, […]
Avoid Overload by Improving Capacity for Change & Managing Demand
Every organisation seeking to implement major change must manage three key components, or risk areas, in the organisational change system: Organisational capacity for change Change demand risks Initiative-specific risks This article explores the impact of the first two – demand and capacity – on an organisation’s ability to implement their change initiatives. 1. Organisational capacity for change Organisational capacity for […]
Level of Change in Business
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 […]