Over the past 30+ years, IMA’s change management experts have been helping organizations worldwide implement complex changes. From Mergers and Acquisitions to Shared Services to IT implementations, we’ve pretty much seen it all. One of the distinct advantages of our work is that we have an opportunity to get a bird's eye view into what is going on across global enterprises in terms of change management challenges and practices.
You don’t have to look far to see an example of breakthrough, disruptive change. Uber. Airbnb. Dollar Shave Club. These are highly disruptive, innovative concepts that have radically transformed their respective marketplaces. These are great ideas that were scalable and able to be implemented at speed.
Despite the increasing maturity and sophistication around how to manage change projects, there is still one myth out there that seems to sustain itself from the boardroom through senior management ranks: “Just getting planned messages out is enough to not only generate commitment to the change, but to actually have people change their behavior.” Unfortunately, it’s just not that simple.
Are you in the market for a change management methodology? Perhaps you’ve never used a structured process before and are facing a daunting, transformational change. Or maybe you’d like to evaluate your current approach, because what worked for your organization 7 or 10 years ago isn’t working in today's environment.
Fast. Faster. Fastest! In today's crazy, busy work world, the drive to accelerate transformational change, enterprise wide changes, really any type of business change is greater than ever before. Organizations who are able to implement faster are figuratively one step ahead of their competition and ultimately more successful.
Sponsorship is the most critical success factor in ensuring a fast and successful implementation of any type of business change {Tweet This}. But once you’ve identified all your Sponsors through the process of Key Role Mapping, how do you go about managing them? One of the greatest challenges of implementing large-scale, complex change is that very often you will be confronted with multiple Sponsors who each bring their own visions, political agendas, and "Frames of Reference," to the change.
How to Change the Way Your Organization Changes
How do you change the way your organization implements strategic initiatives? Surely there is a way to get change projects done faster, and more successfully! Yes, there is a way to do these projects better. And you can start on that path by attending an AIM Accreditation Program.
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Benjamin Franklin once said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” That’s why we find it rather puzzling when organizations initiate any type of change without a Change Implementation Plan.
In fact, after almost 40 years of hands-on Change Management Consulting and Training work, we contend Implementation Management Planning is arguably the single most important step to be taken when starting a new change project, whether it’s transformational in scope or a more modest change.
Transforming your business may make strategic sense, but transformational change is complex. Enterprise-wide implementation of new systems, structures, and processes is time-consuming and incredibly challenging. Mergers & Acquisitions, Re-structuring and Shared Services are all large-scale, highly disruptive changes that cannot be done incrementally. Once you take these leaps, you can’t change your mind and go back to the old ways.
40 years. That’s how long Don Harrison, President and founder of IMA has been working in the Change Management industry. While some may joke he started when he was 5, Don has dedicated his entire career to implementing complex changes in organizations. His frequent application of this expertise to technology implementations, cultural changes, mergers and acquisitions, and business process initiatives has led to his popularity as a consultant and keynote speaker for national and international conferences. Plus he is really funny, and that helps!
