Change at the Work Place - Don't Move that Cheese

Change in life is inevitable. As sooner as we can adopt to change the better we will be able to position ourselves and make the best out of it. This is especially true when it comes to change at work.

Scrooged - A Dickens of a Way to Manage Change!

Managing change in our lives and in our businesses is vital in the modern environments in which we live. There is much to learn from that old and cantankerous Dickens character, Mr Ebenezer Scrooge himself...

How Do You Know You Are Getting Better? Use Data to Drive Improvement

All around us success is measured. A football team measures its wins by its scores. We measure the success of our investments by their rates of return. To really measure quality improvement in healthcare or any other business requires that we use data to measure our success. My article gives you tips on how to do this.

More Change Demands More Leadership

Now, more than ever, organizations need the bonding glue of a strong culture to hold everything and everyone together. At the core of that culture is a strong leader pulling the team together.

Preparing Your Business for Transformation

The world around you is transforming at a very fast pace and it is up to you to learn and keep up with the changes coming along anyway. Transformation in business is the crucial strategy for growth! The question is whether you are realy living up to you fullest potential?

Change Management and Expectations

When managing change, expectations are like communicating vessels between current insight and future risks. Negotiate well, knowing that every future has more risks than you can imagine.

For Change Management Success It Pays To Be Seen

Change management success requires visible, persistent engagement by an organization's leadership. Read this article for tips on how an organization can demonstrate its commitment to the change process.

How to Know What You Know (1)

How do you know what you know? Knowing this is one of the first steps in knowledge management.

New Year's Sales & Marketing Resolutions

It's a great time to dust off your playbook and think about what your strategic plans are in sales and marketing for the coming year. A good way to start is to start by taking your management team through a series of new year's resolutions.

Making Change Stick

Over 87% of organisational change programmes fail within 12 months of starting. This article examines the critical factors that can make the difference between success and failure.

Conventional Business Change is the Problem, Not the Solution

Since the beginning of business, methods for operating and developing the business have been refined into the conventional methods used today. We improve management and effect business change by adding new conventional methods on the methods in place. But, there are problems with those methods in place that will never be solved by adding on more conventional methods. We need to take a complete new look at the way structure the enterprise in order to solve fundamental business problems.

Want to Make Tremendous Gains at Your Healthcare Site? Use Process Mapping!

A short discussion of the process mapping tool used by many manufacturers and service providers to make dramatic improvements in quality, in improving the bottom line, and in finding time to get things done.

Apathy and Cynicism Zap Our Spirit

As the years slide by, a growing number of people don't really live, they merely exist – trapped in their lives of quiet desperation. Just getting by is as dangerous as resting in the snow on a frigid winter night; our passion and spirit dozes off and dies in our sleep.

How to Help Someone Else Get Organized - Without the Headaches

Organizing others is not an obvious task, even if you are organized yourself. This article will give you: tips on how to identify if the person you are thinking of it truly disorganized or if it is an appearance issue, and how to address this; what to do and not to do if the person is truly disorganized; resources to help you proceeed.

A Personal Reminiscence Of a Gradual Change

The second industrial revolution: reinventing your business on the Web, is a book that I received from (former) professor of MIT John Donovan when I attended his conference in Paris in 1999 about the same topic. I recently re-opened the book accidentally and found an interesting part about change management...