Change Capacity - Featured Guest ArticleWhat Makes Change Easy or Difficult to Implement? Determining the Change CapacityFeatured guest article on "Change Capacity" by Christophe Lastennet With a success rate for change initiatives as low as 30%, you may say there is no such thing as an easy change to implement. The assumption is certainly a good one to have to make sure you don't underestimate your change management efforts required. Some changes prove to be more difficult than others to implement. It can be because of the nature of the change, its depth, the context, the way it is managed and the level of preparation. As soon as the vision of the change becomes clear, several questions typically arise for the change leader: can I make this happen? What problems can I expect and how will I solve them? Will people resist? What will help me through the journey? To start drawing a clear picture of what lies ahead, there are 4 parameters, you ,as a change leader, need to assess:
These 4 parameters are the ingredients that will enable you to assess your change capacity, by definition the success potential of the change. The recipe comes next: Change Capacity = SF x SA / (HI + OI) What does it mean? This formula is meant to stress a few things:
Assessing your change capacity will help you know where you stand before the beginning of the change journey. It may also help you finding the right depth of the change by comparing different change capacity results for different depths: for what change depth will the results expected, and therefore the stakeholder attractiveness most outweigh the efforts required by the impact? How can I practically assess my change capacity? As a change leader, thinking yourself about these 4 factors and discussing them with other people involved will give you a sense of your initiative's success potential. A more thorough way of performing the assessment is by using a tool that will: - assess each factor through a specific set of questions aimed at various stakeholders - consolidate and quantify each factor - determine the resulting change capacity index and benchmark it Doing this exercise will help you prepare the journey. Preparation, as we know, is a large part of future success. For more information about the change capacity formula, index and tool please contact me Christophe Lastennet, CLA Consulting, Change management consultant with 10 years experience acquired in various sectors and company sizes, across Europe, Asia and Africa. Through CLA Consulting, Christophe helps managers to assess and implement change. Based near Lyon, France, and intervening internationally. Christophe's blog - Appetite for Change See here to contact Christophe re Change Capacity Return to: Change management articles and resources
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