Chewing Change: Consumption for Effective Change

Debasis is a project management consultant in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

  Change Management  

This article is the fourth in a series of articles on change management, following The ABCs of Change: A Path for Change Management, Change Appetite: The Hunger for Change and Managing Bites: Making Change Palatable.

With the planning stages completed reasonably, the actual work for change commences. The change committee would have determined how much of change can be taken up at each go—the bite size. Now is the time to ensure those change components are adequately processed (chewed) to deliver the benefits that they are intended for.

Processing the change initiatives in an appropriate manner determines and helps in the following ways:

1. Setting the pace for the change – The frequency of taking on board the change components (the bites that were decided)
2. Ensuring quality of processing – The intention is to be certain that processing is properly undertaken (chew slow and effectively) to make it easy to derive benefits in the next stage

There are no contentions about the expected quality – change initiatives are taken up for a reason, and the benefits of the initiatives are only realized at the very end. All efforts that happen between the start of the initiative (conceptualization) and in getting to work on the specific tasks that would bring about the …

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