Change management (sometimes abbreviated as CM) is a collective term for all approaches to prepare, support, and help individuals, teams, and organizations in making organizational change. It includes methods that redirect or redefine the use of resources, business process, budget allocations, or other modes of operation that significantly change a company or organization.
Imagine this… You are an educated, successful person capable of abstract thought, and responsible for overseeing software development. You have a reputation throughout your organization as a careful person, bordering on penny-pinching. On the other side of your desk sits a guy wearing a taupe blazer in his mid-30’s with a computer in his lap. He tells you: “We’re…
Welcome to Episode 2 of The Outliers Inn – Organizational Change: Past, Present, and Future Topic: Who changes the change? Are we in a radical new era of thinking about organisations, or is it plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose? Are we any better now at managing organisations – and managing change and transformation – than…
Congratulations – you have been promoted into a leadership role for the first time and feel like you have the world by the horns. This is what you have been striving for your whole career up to this point. It is an amazing day indeed! It also can be one of the scariest days of…
I have met countless Continuous Improvement and Operational Excellence professionals over the course of my career. And, in turn, I have become acquainted with their roles and efforts in regards to driving value to their organizations. Oftentimes, these professionals, although possessing great passion for, and pride in, the value they drive to their companies, express…
Many-tasking My goal in writing this is to be educational and help others learn from my successful experiments, but I’m also hoping to coin a new term. The term is “Many-tasking.” Many-tasking turns multi-tasking inside out: Where multi-tasking is dividing one person’s time across many tasks, usually very inefficiently, many-tasking is having many people focus…
In the quest for continuous improvement and the desire for increasing levels of control, coupled with a fundamental lack of development for leaders at all levels, are we eschewing the capabilities of our employees by creating rigid systems of rules that may not be as effective as we once thought and; in a much more…
