Description
Book SynopsisExecutives are under escalating pressure to deliver increasing profits every quarter, while technology advances at an increasing rate. In such a pressure-cooker environment, leaders must hard-wire their organizations to be mindful of costs while simultaneously becoming more flexible and faster at planning and executing the change programs required by innovation and the shifting demands of the customer. The companies that successfully innovate and stay at the top of their industries have one thing in common – they learn fast and manage change well.
Charting Change provides a set of visual tools that will help you build a coherent approach to change, identifying both the things that will help make the effort successful, and those people and barriers that will try to block the way. Leaders that read and absorb this book will be able to make productive use of the tools to drive buy-in, alignment, and successful change outcomes across the organization, its systems, and its culture.
This second edition features new topics such as architecting for change, overcoming resistance to change, and systems thinking, as well as new visual tools such as the Organizational Agility Framework. This book will help leaders and managers visualize, plan, and execute change and transformation in a more accessible, visual, and collaborative way. Once you are done reading Charting Change you will approach any big change with confidence.
Table of Contents1. Changing Change
2. Architecting for Change (introduce pyramid model and hypothetical business architecture example)
· BONUS FEATURE – Guest Expert TBD: Specialized Business Architecture topic
3. Planning Change
4. Understanding the Current State
· BONUS FEATURE – NHS Case Study: Challenging Top-Down Change
5. Exploring Readiness for Change and Transitions
· BONUS FEATURE – Guest Expert TBD (reaching out to Bill Taylor and Charlene Li): Overcoming Resistance to Change
6. Envisioning the Desired State
· BONUS FEATURE – Seth Kahan (Guest Expert): Generating Dramatic Surges of Progress
7. Picking the Right Target for Your Change Effort
8. The Benefits of Change
9. The People Side of Change (enhance chapter with information on stakeholder mapping)
· BONUS FEATURE – Guest Expert TBD: Our Internal Wiring (neuroplasticity and other topics)
10. Building a Continuous Change Culture
· BONUS FEATURE – Guest Expert TBD: learning culture or flexible organization topic
11. Barriers and Obstacles to Change
· BONUS FEATURE – Matthew E. May (Guest Expert): Reverse Engineer Your Strategy by Asking “What Must Be True?”
12. Not Everything About Change is Wonderful
13. Change Doesn’t Happen in Isolation (Systems Thinking Chapter)
· BONUS FEATURE – Guest Expert TBD: Latest in Systems Thinking
14. Breaking It Down (enhance chapter with information about agile approach to change backed by the right pacing for change – to avoid change saturation), upgrade mind-sets section on p116 with icons from the infographic – include an introduction of Organizational Agility Framework)
15. Now What (The Resource Challenge)
· BONUS FEATURE – Beth Montag-Schmaltz (Guest Expert): Bracing for the Next Wave of Change
16. Building the Case for Change
· BONUS FEATURE – Brett Clay, PhD (Guest Expert): Selling Change
17. Communicating Change
· BONUS FEATURE – Kate Hammer (Guest Expert): StoryFORMing
· BONUS FEATURE – Ty Montague and Rosemarie Ryan (Guest Experts): StoryDoing ® and Organizational Change
18. Leading Change (enhance with new content about what it takes to be a good change leader)
· BONUS FEATURE—Tanveer Naseer (Guest Expert): How Successful Leaders Champion Change in Today’s Organizations
19. Innovation Is All about Change
· BONUS FEATURE—Babak Forutanpour (Guest Expert—Case Study): Don’t Dream Alone: Story of Grass-Roots Innovation in a Fortune 500 Company
20. Project and Portfolio Management Are about Change (enhance with Visual Project Charter information – including a visual)
· BONUS FEATURE—Dion Hinchcliffe (Guest Expert): How Companies Are Discovering New Pathways for Digital Transformation
21. Successful Digital and Business Transformations
· BONUS FEATURE – Shep Hyken (Guest Expert): Customer Transformation Topic
22. The Future of Change
· BONUS FEATURE—Rohit Talwar (Guest Expert): Dancing with Disruption: Forces Shaping the Future of Business
· BONUS FEATURE—Ayelet Baron (Guest Expert): Change Is Abundant in the Twenty-First Century
