Change Management 1: Business Challenges Severe Competition
Change Management 1: Business Challenges Severe Competition
To take
different actions than previously means to make different
choices. Different choices produce change. The same produce
sameness, a reinforcement of the status quo.
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Change in Tech
Change in Comm
Change in Info
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People Oriented Change: before changing
other people, we have to change our self, first! • Leader must possess the discipline, determination, and courage
necessary to get the job done. “A unique feature of the human brain
is its ability to form mental images of the future and to translate
Organizational Change: changing the these images into reality though leadership and action”.
strategy, policy, system and procedures for
achieving an high performing organization • Leaders must possess more than vision and values. They must
discipline, energy, determination, zeal, and courage to carry them
through the difficult periods and more important, to keep them
moving forward during thee good times as well.
Turning Point
“The road stop here, what got you here, won’t get you there” * Theory E
Theory E has as its purpose the creation of economic value, often
expressed as shareholder value. Its focus on formal structure and
systems. It is driven from the top down with extensive help from
consultants and financial incentives. Change is planned and
Good programmatic
* Theory O
Second Theory O has as its purpose the development of the organization’s
Curve human capability to implement strategy and to learn from actions
taken about the effectiveness of a changes made. Its focus is on
the development of a high – commitment culture. Its means
First Curve consist of high involvement, and consultants and incentives are
relied on far less to drive change. Change is emergent, less
planned and programmatic
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Dimensions Theory E Theory O Theory E and O Combined
Of Change
Goals Maximize shareholder Develop organizational Explicitly embrace the paradox
Theories E and O of Change value capabilities between economic value and
org. capabilities
Purpose & Means Theory E Theory O Manage change Encourage participation Set direction from the top
Leadership
from the top down from the bottom up and engage the people below
Purpose Maximize economic value Develop organizational
capabilities Focus Emphasize structure Build up corporate Focus simultaneously on
and systems culture, employees’ hard (structures and systems)
Leadership Top – down Participative behavior and attitudes and soft (corporate culture)
Process Plan and establish Experiment and evolve Plan for spontaneity
Focus Structure & systems Culture programs
Planning Programmatic Emergent Reward System Motivate through Motivate through Use incentives to reinforce
financial incentives commitment – use pay change but not to drive it
Motivation Incentives lead Incentive lag as fair exchange
Consultants Large/knowledge – Small/process driven Use of Consultants analyze Consultants support Consultants are expert
driven Consultants problems and shape management in shaping resources who empower
solutions their own solutions employees
Fundamental Change
Generate energy, allocate resources, shift paradigms,
MANAGEMENT develop transformation team, develop transformational
CHANGE leaders at all levels
• Fundamental Change Strategy – the whole STRUCTURAL Realignment and rebuilding of policies, management
organization and its relationship will systems, organization structures, business processes,
CHANGE enabling technology
simultaneously change
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The Business Transformation Implementation of Change
Model (Simplified Framework)
1. Anticipate Change
2. Generate
TECHNOLOGY CHANGE Confidence
3. Initiate action Analysis “Force Field”
4. Liberate thinking
5. Evaluate results Planning and Strategy ”Strategic Triangle”
BUSINESS
TRANSFORMATION PROCESS CHANGE 1. Phase One: Results Implementation ”8 Steps”
FOCUSED
Communicate Vision,
Strategy and
Supporting implementation ”Cycle of
commitment
2. Phase two: Change”
PEOPLECHANGE Fast Target
3. Phase three :
Build on going
”Storytelling”
capability
Not Establishing a Great Enough Sense of Urgency Transformation requires the aggressive
Not Creating a Powerful Enough Guiding Coalition cooperation of many individuals
Lacking a Vision Change by definition always demand leadership
Undercommunicating the Vision by a Factor of Ten The message that the status quo is more
Not removing obstacles to the New Vision dangerous than launching into the unknown
Not Systematically planning for and Creating Short-Term must be given
Wins
Declaring Victory Too Soon
Not Anchoring Changes in the Corporation’s Culture
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Successful transformation requires a minimum In failed transformations, you often find plenty of
“critical” mass plans and programmes, but no vision
Guiding coalition members must include those that
A vision says something that clarifies the direction
operate outside of the normal hierarchy in which an organization needs to move
Teamwork is essential
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In more successful transformation efforts, executives use all Too often,an employee understands the new vision and
existing communication channels to broadcast the vision wants to make it happen. But something appears to be
Communication comes in both words and deeds blocking the path,
Nothing undermines change more than behaviour by Organization structures, systems and procedures can
important individuals that is inconsistent with their words seriously undermine transformation efforts.
The worst of all are bosses who refuse to change and make
demands that are inconsistent with the overall effort.
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Without Short-Term wins, too many people give up or
actively join the ranks of those who have been resisting While celebrating a win is fine, declaring the war
change won can be catastrophic.
Changes must sink deeply into an organizational
Short-Term wins help keep the urgency level up and
force detailed analytical thinking that can clarify or culture.
revise visions New approaches are fragile and subject to
regression.
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Develop Detailed, Multi-dimensional Plans
Change Description
There Is a Need to Develop a Comprehensive Plan for the The Past Bounds Future Success
Change Identify Critical Success Factors From Previous
There Is a Need to Get the Organization Ready for the Change Successful Changes in the Organization
But If It Takes Too Long, People Lose Interest and Motivation Surveys
So, Plan for Short Projects That Will Engage the People Interviews
Lessons Learned Sessions
Acknowledge Past Failures
Explicitly Plan on Countermeasures
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Create a Key Role Map of the Formal Organization
At All Levels Within the Organization Sponsors (at All Levels)
Teach Them Their Job Change Agents
Establish a Clear Vision Targets
Articulate That Vision Augment With Identification of Informal Organization Key
Communicate With the Affected Groups People (Understand Why They Have This Influence)
Focus Energies on Their Direct Reports Opinion Shapers
Monitor Progress Gate Keepers
Eliminate Obstacles Idea Champions
Recognize and Reward Short-term Wins Develop an Understanding of Their
Stick With It for the Long Haul Level of Influence
Level of Commitment to the Change
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Get People Involved Early in the Planning Substitute One Fear for Another
Even If They Can’t Plan “What”, They Can Plan “How” Make the Anxiety Associated With Not Changing Greater
They Are Changed by the Act of Participating in Planning the Than the Anxiety of Changing
Change Intentionally Create Disorder
Surfaces Resistance Early and Can Potentially Remove the Mechanisms That Allow People to Stay the
Manage It Same
Sample
Keep It Simple – No Jargon
Use Language of the People Memo From Director General to Manager:
Today at 11 O'clock There Will Be a Total Eclipse of the Sun. This Is When the Sun
Use Storytelling Disappears Behind the Moon for Two Minutes. As This Is Something That Cannot Be
Use Different Mediums Seen Every Day, Time Will Be Allowed for Employees to View the Eclipse in the Car Park.
Memos People Should Meet in the Car Parking Area at Ten to Eleven, When I Will Deliver a Short
Speech Introducing the Eclipse, and Giving Some Background Information. Safety
Group Meetings
Goggles Will Be Made Available at a Small Cost.
Stories in Newsletters
One-on-one Meetings
(Have Different Levels of Impact) Memo From Manager to Department Head:
Change Style of Communication Depending Upon Today at Ten to Eleven, All Staff Should Meet in the Car Parking Area. This Will Be
Followed by a Total Eclipse of the Sun, Which Will Disappear for Two Minutes. For a
Where You Are in the Change Moderate Cost, This Will Be Made Safe With Goggles. The Director General Will Deliver a
Who You Are Communicating With Short Speech Beforehand to Give Us All Some Background Information. This Is Not
Walk the Talk, Be Honest Something That Can Be Seen Every Day.
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Plan for Goals (Long and Near Term) That Are Measurable,
Tangible and Clear
In Terms That Have Meaning to Individuals and Teams Explicitly Tied to Vision
Ask Them What a Reward Would Look Like to Them Not a Count of Activities
Highly Visible # Of People Trained in CM Projects/programs
Reward Throughout the Change, Not Just at the End # Of Procedures Written
Performance Results That Matter to Customers, Employees
or Shareholders
Reduction in Delivered Defects
Reduction in Cycle Time
Reduced Escaped Defects Resulting in Reduced Rework
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Resistance Is
Letting Go of Familiar Past (Perhaps a Romanticized Inevitable
View)
A Natural Function of Change
Confronting Feelings About an Uncertain Future Manageable
Dealing With Loss of Face Resistance Is Not
Redesigning a Focus on New Realities Necessarily Logical
Working on These in Public, Facilitated Forums Allows A Sign of Disloyalty
People to Constructively Express Their Anxiety and Anger
To Be Taken Personally
and Helps to Reduce Passive-Aggressive Inertia and
Sabotage A Sign That the Change Project Is Out of Control
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Simultaneously Pushing for Change While Allowing Self-learning to
Unfold
Educate Leaders of the Change As Well As the Targets of
Their Roles in the Change Being Prepared for a Journey of Uncertainty
To Be Open to Change Seeing Problems As Sources of Creative Resolution
To Anticipate Change, Not Just React to It Having a Vision, but Not Being Blinded by It
To Accept That Change Causes Stress and to Developing Valuing the Individual and the Group
Coping Mechanisms Incorporating Centralizing and Decentralizing Forces
Being Internally Cohesive, but Externally Oriented
Valuing Personal Change Agency As the Route to System Change
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