Comments on: Complexity of Managing Change http://blog.kitetail.com/2008/09/02/managing-change-getting-your-ducks-in-a-row/ practical ideas on innovation and technology management Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:18:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: » Blog Archive Renovate your risk management process to improve your innovation capacity | KiteTail: innovation management for growth http://blog.kitetail.com/2008/09/02/managing-change-getting-your-ducks-in-a-row/comment-page-1/#comment-33668 » Blog Archive Renovate your risk management process to improve your innovation capacity | KiteTail: innovation management for growth Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:31:41 +0000 http://blog.kitetail.com/?p=175#comment-33668 [...] Change is hard . Build a systemic process to deliver and implement change. [...] [...] Change is hard . Build a systemic process to deliver and implement change. [...]

]]> By: binnur http://blog.kitetail.com/2008/09/02/managing-change-getting-your-ducks-in-a-row/comment-page-1/#comment-24490 binnur Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:26:03 +0000 http://blog.kitetail.com/?p=175#comment-24490 John, Thank you. Great points on the need for an effective change agent. I once was tasked with embedding software engineering and product life cycle processes into an organization that prided itself on its independence. Talk about a lonely job! In addition to the characteristics you outlined, my persistence, resilience and focus on adapting the process to our culture (vs. pushing the culture towards the process) along with our top management support and ownership ensured successful implementation. That was a journey down memory lane... :) --B John,

Thank you. Great points on the need for an effective change agent. I once was tasked with embedding software engineering and product life cycle processes into an organization that prided itself on its independence. Talk about a lonely job! In addition to the characteristics you outlined, my persistence, resilience and focus on adapting the process to our culture (vs. pushing the culture towards the process) along with our top management support and ownership ensured successful implementation. That was a journey down memory lane… :)

–B

]]> By: John http://blog.kitetail.com/2008/09/02/managing-change-getting-your-ducks-in-a-row/comment-page-1/#comment-24476 John Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:21:24 +0000 http://blog.kitetail.com/?p=175#comment-24476 I love the graphic. I know this is not an exhaustive list of change management features/inputs but may I add "An effective change agent" to the list. Having management support is, as you rightly point out, critical, but so too is having an effective change agent (whether they be internal or external) who is trusted, objective, supportive, a good communicator, a politician and who listens to the concerns of those effected by the change. John I love the graphic.

I know this is not an exhaustive list of change management features/inputs but may I add “An effective change agent” to the list. Having management support is, as you rightly point out, critical, but so too is having an effective change agent (whether they be internal or external) who is trusted, objective, supportive, a good communicator, a politician and who listens to the concerns of those effected by the change.

John

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