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The Basics of Measuring Organizational Change Success

Wendy Hirsch

Key Points Measuring change results can help you to achieve the vision of the change, and support your organization to build its competency in managing and driving organizational change in the future. Take a multi-dimensional view of change success, evaluating completion, achievement, and satisfaction.

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Where's the evidence? A running list of research on change management.

Wendy Hirsch

Organizational Change Failure Rates Is it true that 70-90% of all change efforts fail? whilst it is widely acknowledged that the implementation of a new strategy can be a difficult task, the true rate of implementation failure remains to be determined. Strategy implementation: What is the failure rate?

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Change Skills for Leaders: An Overview

Wendy Hirsch

Key Points Organizational change doesn’t just happen, it needs to be led. Competent change leadership is associated with a variety of positive outcomes, such as reduced stress and increased openness to change, as well as increased likelihood of change success. The network secrets of great change agents.

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Why do people change (or not change)?

Wendy Hirsch

Most organizational changes require behavior change for success. But how do you encourage people to change how they act or think? Behavior change is a complex process, and influencing it effectively requires intentional effort. Supporting behavior change is rarely a one-and-done effort. Experiment and learn.

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Three steps for overcoming change resistance

Wendy Hirsch

Key Points Negative responses are expected in any organizational change. Proactive steps such as clarifying what types of responses are problematic and which are productive and focusing on building readiness can help to enable constructive dialog about change reactions. What will be different when we change?

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IT strategic plan (beginner’s guide)

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An IT strategic plan is a tool for implementing an IT strategy. Performance metrics/Key Performance Indicators IT plan implementation information Plan maintenance information IT Strategic initiatives and goals IT priorities. Gartner found that 73% of employees who go through changes feel stressed. IT governance information.

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How to lead different types of change [Case Studies]

Wendy Hirsch

SUMMARY Choosing the right strategies to help your organization navigate change requires you to first recognize the kind of change journey you are on. Some organizational changes are like hiking through a dense forest. Revised March 2016.) **Toyota case study: Adler, P. Goldoftas, B., & Levine, D.