Business professionals faced with change challenges often turn to templates for answers. In this episode, we explore what a template is… and is not, what your expectations should be, and how to use templates in your own change situations most effectively.
Just about all change projects involve information technology (IT) to some extent, so we’ve decided to focus some time on this important area of change practice. In this episode we discuss how often IT projects achieve technical success - that is, all the machines and software work the way they should - but nevertheless fail to meet business expectations. We talk about the implications this situation has on both IT and business professionals. Finally, we discuss an assessment tool we are releasing on this site that you can use to evaluate your IT projects to pinpoint what you need to buck the trend and achieve both technical and business success.
You can find the assessment tool at: http://www.implementchangenow.com/risk3
Often the specific answers that people want can only be found by drawing on a very profound understanding of an area of knowledge. Problems can occur when someone who understands the desired specific answer - the “Reader’s Digest Version” - thinks he has mastered the entire body of knowledge from which it comes. Increasingly, this is becoming a problem. Every area of study is becoming deeper and deeper at the same time our fast-paced world demands answers faster and faster.
This episode explores how business people, technical experts, and change professionals all fall victim to this common pitfall.
Misguided and unprofessional attitudes among change professionals, both outside and inside target organizations, are surprisingly common. Here is some of the things we have heard inside the trenches, why the attitudes they reveal are not just wrong - but wrong-headed, and how they can destroy your implementation efforts.
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