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Resistance: “it is easier to ‘change’ someone else than to change ourselves”
In Change Management Communities of Practice, project professionals often discuss what to do about resistance. It often quickly comes down to how to re-direct, re-assign or even fire the “blocker”....
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Is your Brand Promise on the Change Train?
Is your Brand Promise important to you? (Huh?) Is it important to preserve a stellar customer experience during change? As you make changes throughout your organization do you mindfully consider the...
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Must we really look at organizational culture to get ROI and sustainability?
I am almost done reading “Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture” by Kim S. Cameron and Robert E. Quinn (renowned thought leaders in this space). This book directly addresses culture in the...
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Dilemma: can you, should you, attempt to change your organization’s culture?...
Okay, this is an experiment at crowdsourcing solutions … here’s the dilemma: we all know that culture is a “challenge” for our current change initiative, Program or Project (let’s be clear this is a...
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Innovating Project and Change Management to generate better results—Book Review
Few organizations have figured out how to do strategy execution well. One of the enigmas of implementation continues to be the gap between project management and change management. This post is a...
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Library—Great Books on Strategy Execution
We all have a “library” of resources we’ve read that have shaped our thinking and practice, which we reference. These are the books I reference. There are (many) more on my bookshelves but these are...
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“Change leadership” is not THE silver bullet. The Silver Bullet series.
Seems like many organizations are looking for the secret to effective strategic execution―the one thing that will fix the so-called 70% failure rate. The problem is (and we all know it deep down),...
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Strategy execution methodologies series (Post 1)
Most organisations have developed internal processes and capabilities for executing strategy. However, most of these are built for the transitionalstrategies that organizations face in average years...
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What is Project Management, per the Project Management Institute―and where...
Strategies identify “what” needs to change. Project management provides a structure for “how.” Some go so far as to say that “projects are the vehicles of change.” This post is a continuation in the...
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“What is PRINCE2?” Guest Post Richard Batchelor. (Strategy execution...
Having established, in Post 1 of this series, that strategy is “just another good idea” until it is implemented and churning out results, and that there is no single turn-key methodology for executing...
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Breakthroughs in strategy
“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.” Albert Einstein Kids these days have a phrase: “FAIL.” It means something like “epic failure” and describes scenarios often so...
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Optimizing internal and external change management (presentation and tip sheet)
At the Association of Change Management Professionals’ annual conference last week, I participated on and moderated a panel of four great practitioners titled “Perks and Perils - Optimizing Internal...
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Time to kill the phantom 70% failure rate quoted on transformational strategy?
The “70% failure rate” has been exploited enough already. It’s time to stop beating this dead horse and give it a decent burial. I get why it resonates with most of us. Strategy execution is hard. Some...
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Is Strategy Execution the new black?
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” —Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) As the economy picks up...
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What is the Board’s Role in Strategy and Strategy Execution? Post 1 of 3
SOLD OUT! I signed up for this panel presentation, “Growth Strategy—the Board’s Role,” as soon as the fall season schedule from the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) came out. Good thing I...
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What is the Board’s Role in Strategy and Strategy Execution? Post 2 of 3
This post is a continuation of notes from a fantastic panel discussion, “Growth Strategy—the Board’s Role,” run by the Institute of Corporate Directors. On stage, board members represented major...
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Advances in Strategy Execution
There have been three important developments in the last six months that we should all take note of: Aug 2013 Project Management Institute (PMI) published a discussion paper “Managing Change in...
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“Change leadership” is not THE silver bullet. The Silver Bullet series.
Seems like many organizations are looking for the secret to effective strategic execution―the one thing that will fix the so-called 70% failure rate. The problem is (and we all know it deep down),...
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New !! Model to understand Strategy Execution success
What comes after radio silence? Something new. It has been several weeks since I provided a blog post – I hope you have missed me a little and I hope the wait is worth it. I am in the process of...
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Change is coming
Change is always happening around us. The arena of strategy execution, and all of its components, is morphing rapidly in response to our changing market conditions. At opportune times each of us has...
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