Change Management: Undergoing change itself!

We’ve all heard the adage, “culture eats strategy for breakfast”!
But how many organisations really embody this.
Harvard Business Review states that 70% of change initiatives fail. Why?
In our 20 years’ experience in consultancy; the primary contributor to failure is
employee resistance and lack of management support.

Far too often, we see organisations try themselves to initiate change across BU workflow, people, and increasingly now digital platforms. Strategies can be sound but still many fail or incur significant roadblocks, that lead to partial completion or failure. Change management in its traditional sense needs itself to change, and it is. Digital is transforming change at an unprecedented rate, creating more meaningful and competitive outcomes. Change done right has 6 x times the increased likelihood of meeting objectives.

Best Practices In Change Management – 11th Edition | Slide 5

Many of our customers are increasingly engaging in multiple and simultaneous change programs: often involving scores of people across numerous geographies. Understanding the value of change in this new era, its effective roll out and management is imperative. Statistically, 81% of projects with effective change management, come in on or under budget, so thankfully it’s not all doom and gloom.

With a multitude of change management frameworks available (just google), there’s no shortage of support on what do when it comes to change. Experience across a wide customer base helped us to identify one key and constant aspect successful change projects have, and that’s adoption! Without adoption, change will not be successful and will not deliver the desired outcomes.

Our team of change consultants (@CDRU) appreciate the challenge adoption brings. No easy task. We endeavour to support and enable businesses at any stage of change or transformation to determine their goals clearly and then work with them around agile and effective change management frameworks – underpinned by adoption and enablement!

See how the team at CDRU supported Virgin Airlines in a their enablement and adoption of change.

Reach out to our team or email (info@cdru.com.au) if you have any questions around change management requirements. We’d love to have a chat.