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By: Comparing Conventional Change Management and Change by Design :: RiverFork Consulting | Change by Design

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:26:40 +0000

[...] and so on—are useful, and they have proven not enough. Organizational change continues to remain notoriously elusive and the missing results and surface level best practices fall short when inevitable challenges [...]

By: Dave Koehn

Dave Koehn — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:46:21 +0000

Take a look at Dave Koehn and Rich Adler's approach to change called CALM — Change Adaptation Learning Model. Quite unique and is a parigigm shift in the thinking about change.

By: RiverFork

RiverFork — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:52:56 +0000

Hi Henry,
Thanks for the comments. Consider your statement turned into a question, "How might we engage employees and impacted stakeholders as partners in the process instead of informing them of a done-deal and treating them as an incidental audience?" That's a question, a problem to solve. Not everyone knows HOW to engage people in the solution. That's why I believe a problem solving methodology like design thinking is a powerful and complementary discipline to change management. Design thinking is a human-centered approach to problem solving to engage others to realize change. Design thinking is way of thinking that embraces collaboration, participation, empathy, and exploration. The tools of designer are all about engaging others. I.e. brainstorming, observation, storyboarding, positive defiance, prototyping, and so on.
Thanks again for your comments.
Kind Regards,
Melissa

By: Henry Hornstein, PhD

Henry Hornstein, PhD — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:20:20 +0000

Successful OCM is not about problem-solving methodologies; it is about engaging employees and impacted stakeholders as partners in the process instead of informing them of a done-deal and treating them as an incidental audience. The statistics on failed change are clear – perpetuating autocracy and mismanaging employee adoption are among the most significant contributors to project failure.

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Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:21:45 +0000

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