Measuring Change Readiness

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).

  Change Management  

Are you and your organization ready for change? Too often, organizations define the change effort they want to pursue without first identifying whether there are people, resources, legislation, etc. present that must be in place before the change effort can begin. Here we will explore the circumstances you may want to explore before beginning any change effort--and the areas to explore as potential prerequisites to the change program and its eventual success.

During the course of any change initiative, many different challenges will appear. The most successful change efforts will anticipate those challenges and have a plan for dealing with them. Part of that anticipation begins with identifying how ready the organization is for change.

One of the keys to change planning success is carefully identifying the prerequisites for change, including:

1. What must we know? (knowledge)
2. What must we have? (tools)
3. What must be completed? (foundation)

One other concept we should stop and discuss briefly is the idea of change saturation. This concept captures the idea that organizations in general, and certain individuals in specific, can only absorb so much change at one time. One frequent occurrence with change efforts is the situation where more than one project or larger change effort may require the same human, financial, physical, information or other resources at the…

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