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Implementing a Balanced Scorecard Is a Political Act
You know you need a scorecard. You know that what gets measured gets managed. You have a bunch of things you would like to keep a closer pulse on. So why is it like pulling teeth to get your people to...
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Change Is Good: Keep It Super Simple
In a famous episode of the sitcom series Seinfield, the father of one of the main characters, Frank Costanza, received the therapeutic advice to say “serenity, now” whenever a situation caused his...
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Make Your Strategy Map a Top Performer
If you’re running a successful business, there’s a good chance you use a strategy map. There’s an even better chance that your strategy map is under-performing. Strategy maps represent business logic....
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Quashing accidental organization design in technology projects
Investing in a major software implementation carries the promise of reduced costs and greater agility, but if it doesn’t fit within the organization, those benefits are quickly undermined. I believe...
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Why Projects Succeed: Checklist for Change
This October, I will be presenting “Why Change Management Projects Succeed” at the ACMP Pacific Northwest Regional Network’s Change Symposium. My presentation highlights the value of identifying the...
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Change is Good: Change Factor Survey results
On October 24, I had the privilege of speaking at the ACMP Pacific Northwest Regional Network’s Change Connect 2013 Symposium. My presentation highlighted the value of identifying the factors that...
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The art of project management: transformation management
The topic of this post was sourced by Dr. Harold Kerzner, Senior Executive Director for Project Management at the International Institute for Learning and Emeritus Professor of Systems Management at...
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Change is good: L is for leadership courage
Successful change occurs when sponsors are actively engaged and committed to the change. I recently conducted a Change Success Factor survey where 71% of the respondents said that active and engaged...
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Change is good: tell us how change saturation affects your organization
Are employees in your organization being impacted from too much change? Through our many discussions with clients, we hear employees talk about the overwhelming amount of changes being rolled out at...
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Change is good: managing Change Saturation
It’s probably an all-too familiar scenario at your organization: multiple internal initiatives happening at once, and often competing with each other, falling on the shoulders of stressed-out...
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