Change Management

Change Management is the strategic approach to planning, implementing, and adapting to organizational change with minimal disruption.

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Top Change Management Resources

How leaders can build a more creative & innovative culture Dr Ken Hudson

Leaders must build a creative and innovative culture by fostering idea receptivity, experimentation, risk-taking, enjoyment of the process, focus on results, and operating at the edge of chaos.

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Managing change and innovation successfully

Experienced employees' knowledge can hinder change and innovation. The brain's autopilot mode suppresses innovative thinking. Discuss and question existing situations for successful management of change and innovation.

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Collaboration Overload: When the Outcome of Your Innovation Effort is Less Than the Sum of its Parts

Excessive collaboration harms organizational performance, slows decision-making, and hurts ROI. Rob Cross and Peter Gray propose solutions to improve the life of employees and reduce collaboration overload.

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Coronavirus: 5 Checklists for Jumpstarting Business Continuity Planning

As the coronavirus continues to impact the global economy, businesses need to plan for continuity to prevent disaster. Brainzooming offers free resources for businesses to jumpstart their planning.

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How Business Teams Can Embrace Agile

Agile methodology is no longer limited to software development as it is being adopted by business teams to enhance speed and flexibility. Integrating direct communication, increasing visibility, and aligning team goals with organizational goals are key concepts that can help any organization become more efficient and effective.

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Re-Inventing Feedback for a Business Agile Approach

Enterprises shifting to a business agile approach must focus on re-inventing their feedback mechanisms. This can lead to faster and better results, but requires changes in presentation, prioritization, and authorization.

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Innovation Success Through Planning, Preparation, and Organization by Woody Bendle

Innovation success requires a purposeful execution of the innovation process, which involves planning, preparation, and organization.

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The ongoing challenge is making change our constant

Innovation and change require a more holistic approach to yield optimal value. Transformation aims to reinvent the organization, while change focuses on making the existing system better.

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Disruptive Innovation, Change Management & Taking the NO Out of InNOvation

Business innovation can face barriers across all companies. These 10 challenges can impede the development of innovative ideas in organizations, but with appropriate change management, each can be surmounted.

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Enabling Enterprise Adaptability and Agility - Mindsets That Connect Strategy and Execution

Enterprise adaptability and agility mindsets are key to connecting strategy to execution and thriving through change, rather than just surviving it.

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No They Aren’t Reading Your Fancy Magazine - Communicating Change, Winning Employee Support for New Business Goals, by TJ Larkin and Sandar Larkin

Communicating Change, Winning Employee Support for New Business Goals by TJ Larkin and Sandar Larkin provides insights on how large organizations can effectively communicate change to frontline employees to improve behavior.

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Organizational Change Consulting and Coaching - Innovation Training |

Organizational Change Consulting & Coaching (OCCC) can improve an organization's performance by fully optimizing their human capital potential and contribution.

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Overcoming Three Obstacles on the Path to Becoming an Adaptable Enterprise

Organizations face three major obstacles on the path to becoming adaptable: lack of commitment from leadership, lack of cross-functional communication and coordination, and lack of focus on results.

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Planned Change and How to Manage It

Planned change is crucial for organizations to achieve new goals or move forward. We examine three well-established models of planned change: Kurt Lewin's three-step model, the action research model, and the positive model.

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The Role of Communication in Innovation Programs

Good communication is essential for a successful innovation program. This article provides practical guidelines on how to create a communication plan that informs, guides, and motivates participants, and improves the quality of their participation.

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The Three Types of People You'll Meet When Implementing Change

To successfully implement change initiatives, one must identify and win over champions, cynics, and fence-sitters. Delegating projects to champions, engaging with cynics and starting small can lead to quick wins.

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The Value of Awareness, Desire and Knowledge in Change Management

Change management is essential for businesses to adapt and evolve effectively. But why do project managers struggle? It's important to consider the people impacted by the change, build awareness, create desire, and develop knowledge.

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Unfreeze the Middle - Extend Your Influence and Create Culture Beyond Your Direct Influence

Innovators can’t do it all alone. Building networks and coalitions of supporters beyond the direct reach can help unfreeze the middle and bring ideas to market.

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Waging the War Against Burnout—Infographic

Super Project Managers can fight burnout and lead their teams to victory with these tips.

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What Are the Eight Steps of Change?

Change management is essential for organizational survival and John Kotter’s Eight Steps of Change provide a blueprint for successful implementation.

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What Are the Goals of Change Management?

Change management is the process of helping employees adapt to organizational change. It can help increase project ROI, minimize disruption, and build employee morale.

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What is the Kotter Change Model & How Can It Help?

Learn about the essential 8 steps of the Kotter Change Model and how it can help project managers implement change management successfully.

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What Makes a Good Challenge?

Learn how to create successful challenges to drive engagement in innovation through top-down approach by providing structure, clear vision and making it fun.

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Where will Innovation Management Software go?

Innovation management software is evolving with a focus on user experience, data analytics, machine learning, and mobile/cloud-based platforms, but cost, lack of understanding, and fear of change might hold back adoption.

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Why IT says no to innovation

Enabling functions such as legal and IT are often barriers to innovation. They need to be engaged early in the process to anticipate and develop new ideas, otherwise, they may have to say no.

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Why Lean-Agile Culture Shifts Fail

Leading companies need to embrace organizational agility to survive in an era of technological, cultural, economic, and political changes, but many fail to do so due to reasons such as traditional business structures, lack of leadership buy-in, and old school budgeting/planning cycles.

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How Frontline Employees Drive the Change Management Process

Involving frontline workers in change management can be very beneficial.

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How Great Managers Can Drive Employee Engagement

Great managers can boost employee engagement by communicating effectively, leading by example, setting clear goals, focusing on strengths, providing opportunities for growth, letting employees make decisions, and celebrating successes.

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Lean Change Method: Enabling Lean and Agile Transformations at Scale

Lean Change method helps organizations manage agile transformations through co-creation and validated learning.

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Positive Ways to Handle Employee Resignations

Learn how to handle employee resignations with positivity and grace by following these tips from an innovation management blog.

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Change Requests: What They Are & How to Manage Them

Learn the fundamentals of dealing with change requests in project management with these simple yet effective steps.

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Connecting Business with IT to Achieve Agility in the Financial Sector

Santander UK talks about the progress they've made in aligning business with IT and how they incorporate Agile processes into traditional project portfolio management processes for faster delivery of products and services.

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Fluidity – the growing need of organizations today.

The need for fluidity in organizations to deal with environmental turbulence is increasingly important for innovation. However, balancing stability alongside agility is a complex process.

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Innovation and leadership in the workplace | Idea Drop

Successful innovation management requires leaders to lead by example, offer a safe space to innovate, and promote collaboration while establishing an effective reward system.

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Innovation dies at the handover

Handovers are a critical moment for innovation projects, and often lead to project failure. To prevent this, involve a diverse group of people early on in the project and plan for handovers in advance.

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Overcome Hurdles to Maximize Business Value

Ventana Research discusses how work and resource management can help organizations overcome hurdles and maximize business value.

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Overcoming the looming threat to change management

Change management projects are essential, but the compulsion to change often leads to change fatigue, an aversion to change that can have serious consequences. Here are 5 tips to help prevent change fatigue.

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These aren't the ideas you are looking for

Executives have the power to derail innovation teams, intentionally or unintentionally, by questioning or casting doubt on their work. Clarity, consistency, and continuity are key factors in overcoming this "executive innovation mind trick".

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Three Phases of Embedding Innovation

Fear of failure is the biggest impediment to innovation. Organizations need to create a culture conducive to growth and experimentation to unleash their innovation potential.

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Innovation Strategy - 4 Change Management Struggles at Disney

Disney's innovation strategy struggles show that change management is a challenge regardless of company environment. Four change management struggles are highlighted, including scanning outside inspirations.

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Creating Change and Change Management - 4 Strategy Options

Creating Change and Change Management - 4 Strategy Options

Learn the four strategy options for change management to address frustration levels with the status quo situation.

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Launching Innovations: The Do’s and Don’ts

Launching Innovations: The Do’s and Don’ts

Launching new initiatives is critical for innovation leaders, but it requires effective delegation, visibility, and accountability. Avoid micromanaging, taking credit, and blaming others for failure.

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Crossing Participative Innovation with Open Innovation (1/2)

Crossing Participative Innovation with Open Innovation (1/2)

Participative innovation involves making innovation a part of every employee's job through idea-sharing platforms and coaching to develop and implement ideas.

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Practical Innovation in Government

Practical Innovation in Government

This book is a guide to improving government efficiency through front-line-driven change led by supervisors and low-level managers.

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Leading Change

Leading Change

This bestselling business book serves as both visionary guide and practical toolkit on how to approach the difficult yet crucial work of leading change in any type of organization.

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Prophet Study: Applying the Cultural Levers of Transformation

Prophet Study: Applying the Cultural Levers of Transformation

Learn how to determine key cultural levers on which to focus, based on your organization’s greatest needs for cultural change

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Ways to Make your Innovation Culture Smell Better

Ways to Make your Innovation Culture Smell Better

If you are going to invest in the work to improve your innovation culture, you are investing in change.

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