| Issue 03 - June 2005 - Change Management |
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KLR's Newsletter is a complimentary service offered to IT and business professionals. Issued on a bi-monthly basis, it's intended to provide useful information related to the sector as well as updates and information regarding KLR.
In this issue we're offering three articles on Change Management.
Implementing Change - First Steps First.
By: Bruce Logan
True or False: When the business climate, with all its attendant dynamics and forces, compels an organization to change the way it does business, the most difficult aspect of the change effort is determining exactly what the future state of the organization should be.
[Read article] (page 2)
Taking Care of Business – a Case Study.
By: Janet Thornton
Background
The Corporate Registry, within the BC Ministry of Finance,
provides the legal framework within which all provincial companies operate. The Corporate Registry, the oldest, still active, domestic corporation was incorporated in November 1860, predating British Columbia as a province. So it was indeed time for a major transformation, an initiative culminating in the new Business Corporations Act (BCA). Needless to say, a new computer system, Corporate Online, to support BCA was an essential part of the project.
[Read article] (page 3)
Managing Projects in the Context of Continuous Change
By: Thomas B. Lawrence
Many corporations are facing conditions that demand continuous change, but this need not mean dealing with chaos. Understanding the relationship between individual change projects and the broader process of strategic adaptation can mean the difference between a string of irrelevant or unfinished projects, and a connected and powerful series of projects that build on one another.
[Read article] (page 4)
KLR News
Profile of KLR's Change Management Practice Lead.
Bruce Logan heads up KLR's Change Management Practice. He has over thirty years of progressively responsible leadership, management and executive experience. He is a strategic planning, change management and organizational development professional. He has been an internal manager/executive and an external management consultant.
Bruce has consulted to a wide variety of businesses across Canada and the US. He has served at the executive level and as a strategic planning and change management leader. He has expertise in strategic planning, performance measurement and management, organizational assessment and diagnosis, planning and managing change, work process improvement and training and education within organizations.
Bruce’s consulting assignments have taken him to a wide variety of business and industrial settings, ranging from the boardroom to the shop floor. Bruce’s approach to working with clients is highly collaborative. He works with clients to help them arrive at conclusions, solutions and plans which they “own” and to which those who must implement them are fully committed.
Bruce began his professional life as an officer in the U.S. Army. An especially valuable component of his active service was his work as an internal organizational effectiveness specialist based in Washington D.C. He was responsible for planning and implementing highly complex organizational change strategies. Bruce retired as a Lieutenant Colonel.
If you wish to get more information on KLR's Change Management practice, contact us at either office (phone numbers listed below) or email us at sales@klr.com.
Words of Wisdom...
"No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it firstblossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."
- Epictetus c. 60-120, Roman philosopher
"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better."
- Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, English lexicographer
"Tell me and I`ll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I`ll understand."
- Chinese Proverb
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
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Charles Darwin
How About a Little Humor?...
Change Management Tips!
- Of several possible interpretations of any communication, the least convenient is the correct one.
- Anything that can be changed will be changed until there is no time left to change anything.
- What you don't know hurts you.
- If everything's going exactly to plan, something, somewhere is going massively wrong.
- The nice thing about not planning for change is that failure comes as a complete surprise rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.
- Change Management is about trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without persuading them
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- Transfer Knowledge
- Provide Leadership
- Deliver Results
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To provide these services our consultants have complementary skills in Project, Change and Transformation Management.
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