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by Stacy Aaron, Partner Although Wikipedia states that the discipline of Change Management has its roots in the 1960s (over 50 years ago!), plenty of leaders and managers have only cursory [...]

Great ideas, great people and great projects have fallen victim to resistance to change. Resistance is a natural part of the change process and exists in many forms. Look for these structural and [...]

Setting up infrastructure to ensure that change management tools can be optimized for an agile environment is important groundwork for ensuring that changes succeed when iterative agile work [...]

For years, people have asked us how we “scope” consulting work on projects. So we finally decided to create a tool that captures how we decide how much effort will be required to manage the [...]

Change is tough for organizations, and helping people navigate through change takes a special kind of person.  There are of course leaders that need to champion and sponsor change.  But there are [...]

Can you imagine fully half of the people who work for your company being either contractors, temporary workers, or freelancers?  That may very well be the future we face. A 2012 Economic [...]

We have been working with several large organizations lately that are trying to build their internal ability to manage ongoing change.  Change is the new normal for many organizations.  Managing [...]

In today’s business environment, there’s no such thing as “steady state”.  Getting accustomed to making change happen quickly is an integral part of building and leading an effective [...]

Truly exceptional organizations facilitate continuous learning and transformation.  In order to bring about effective organizational change, individuals within an organization needs to be ready, [...]

You don’t need a lot of research to show you that change in organizations is an ever increasing phenomena.  New technologies, new products, new competitors, new regulations, new people with new [...]