How Agile Are Your Change Efforts?

Braden Kelley is an innovation and change specialist, the author of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire, an InnovationExcellence.com co-Founder, and is the creator of the Change Planning Toolkit™ and a book on the best practices and next practices of organizational change (January 2016 release).

  Agile   Change Management   Innovation  

How fast is your organization capable of changing to continue to remain relevant and successful in the marketplace? The world is changing at an accelerating pace as new technologies are discovered, developed, released and adopted by consumers faster than ever before.

At the same time, companies are rising to global scale faster, while large, successful companies are disappearing faster, too--leading to the need for agile change.

What is Agile Change?
In this new reality that we all face, organizations of all types are going to need to pursue the following five keys to building an agile change competence:

1. Change how they change
2. Increase their organizational agility
3. Increase the flexibility of the organization
4. Become capable of continuous change
5. Inhibit the appearance and/or growth of change gaps that can doom your company

This tidal wave of change leads to a recognition that there is a need in the marketplace for a more human approach to the change process. But a more humanistic approach to change will also require new tools that make change seem less overwhelming--both to those planning the change, and of course to those affected by it.

In my continuing quest to make insights accessible for the greater good, I am currently writing a book for Palgrave Macmillan highlighting the best practices and next practices of …

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