Kevin ColemanSubject Matter Expert, Author, Speaker and Strategic Advisor| - InsightsPa, United States
After reading a substantial number of posts and recent articles a very critical question came up. Is the pace of change in business and technology reached a level where MOST organizations can't keep pace?
Change is and has always been a constant. The key is to identify WHICH changes are relevant to one's industry and to pursue those which will provide competitive advantage. Using that filter, I don't believe the issue that organizations can't keep pace but rather a combination of:
1. Insufficient capacity to stay on top of relevant new things - usually caused by too much consumption of skilled resources on BAU
2. Trying to do too many things at the same time vs. focusing on the vital few
3. Poor change management practices
Most organizations have been fairly good at adapting to change, otherwise you won't see them around for long. As they say, survival of the fittest (read as best adaptable to change). Saving Changes...
Pace is increasing in many respects. Should organisation really keep pace with everything? Should one change be put in place, wait for benefits to start to show before doing other change?
In some organizations the pace is so continuous that no benefits of previous changes can be accounted for! Saving Changes...
Eric SimmsSenior Program ManagerBaltimore, Maryland, United States
Most organizations can keep pace, if they're sufficiently motivated to do so from the top. Some reasons I've seen that organizations lag behind is that they're mired in bureaucracy, or filled with comfortable Managers waiting comfortably until retirement and thus unwilling to do the hard work change entails. I've rarely seen a technological reason why an organization can't keep pase with change. Saving Changes...
