Innerchangephenomenon

The digital transformation is not an overnight phenomenon but a step-by-step business evolution.

Change is overwhelming, complexity is inevitable,  they are both facts that are happening all the time and at a faster pace than ever before. The phenomenon of digital transformation is reaching the inflection point, yet we are entering an even more rapid and extensive period of intensive changes. On one side, change is exciting because often it could bring something new, something that couldn’t have been possible; on the other side, change is exhausting, most people would like to stay in the comfort zone; Strategic Change Management is about "having to think about the impacts and implications of change phenomenon and create momentum of change for improvement, sustainable innovation and seamless paradigm shift.

Identify patterns, clarify logic and synchronize processes and functions behind change phenomena: The world is becoming more hyper-connected and over-complex, the outlines of the fully digitalized world have long been sketched. The fact is that change is happening at a much faster pace than ever before, requiring a much more rapid response in order to survive. Forethoughtful organizations reach the inflection point of changes. Change is the journey that needs a clarified vision, a larger strategic investment, well-defined goals, and a stepwise change scenario. Every individual or business evolves digital with different speed. From here to there takes planning, actions, developing building blocks as well as making continuous adjustment. It is about being prepared and having the organizational capability to deal with the unexpected, tolerate ambiguity, apply structural thinking, and take wise actions.

Change management success is not an overnight phenomenon, but a structural and collaborative effort. Numerous changes or business transformations run, complete, and then slowly crumble away as people slowly revert to old ways of doing things, and get stuck with complacency. Once that complacency barrier is broken, people become more creative and learning agile, a positive change process can commence. There is structural thinking and actions behind changing scenarios. The successful individuals or businesses as a whole are the ones that have learned why to change; when change is called for, how to decide what to change, and who will get involved. They can take a proactive approach to make a significant difference in mindset, attitude, and aptitude, build phenomenal business transformations

Business emergence, which is a characteristic of all complex systems, is not always predictable but is both an inspiring and intimidating phenomenon: The world is a mix of known known), known unknown, unknown unknowns and unknowable, the days when businesses spent months doing all sort of analysis and preparing detailed plans are gone, Opportunities and risks continue emerging, business leaders and professionals must be comfortable with “VUCA” reality without losing sight of the business objectives and priorities, broaden their outlook, envision the bigger picture, be conscious of the learning curves, keep the end in mind in order to drive digital transformation in a structural way

Change is always in progress. It is not changing for the sake of changing or managing complexity to make it even more complicated. We need the flexibility to adapt "in-stride" as necessary to move the goal promptly as we discover the knowledge and events of tomorrow. Technologies and markets are constantly morphing under pressure from the waves of creative destruction, the practices that are "best" today are almost always not "best" in the future. Being transformational means redesigning existing transactions to something new with a strategy that changes fundamental organizational values or underlying business structures or functions. The insight-driven digital transformation can create the synchronization of all functions running seamlessly and it is a journey.

Creativity is a phenomenon, creativity is all around us, we just need to get connected with it: Many companies get stuck at the traditional ways to do things, sometimes they need creative tension to stimulate fresh thinking; “constructive disruption” also makes sense, taking into consideration that many businesses do not seem to be satisfied with the current circumstances because there are not enough innovations happening in their businesses to disrupt outdated mindsets, systems, processes, cultures, business models, or practices. In fact, without constructive disruptions, organizations and societies cannot make transformative changes. Creative disruption can lead to transformative changes as you will get very great chances and opportunities to change your organization in many fields and lift up the organization to the next cycle of growth and maturity. It’s critical for organizations to make creative disruption for awakening change, make a seamless transformation from the closed and silo system to a cognitively open, hyper-connected, and intra-active ecological system.

Creativity is imaginative, expressive, productive, inventive, innovative, or emergent. Creative disruption is both art and science. Creative disruption is both art and science. To make creative disruptions, organizations depend more heavily on their technological knowledge and market capabilities to experiment, learn and innovate. On one hand, it’s exciting because often it could bring something new to the party - something that couldn’t have been possible. You will get very great chances and opportunities to change your organization in many fields and lift up the organization to the next cycle of growth and maturity. On the other hand, it could make previously valued skills or competitive advantage less demanded, with the potential of becoming obsolete. So business leaders and professionals should continue learning and refining their knowledge and expertise.

The digital transformation is not an overnight phenomenon but a step-by-step business evolution. Understanding the breadth of change enables business management to keep information and interaction flow in all directions and build up trust by bonding people around clear and benevolent intentions. One size doesn't fit all, for each forward-thinking company attempting to deal with the large scale of changes, it’s important to constantly fine-tuning the uncontrollable factors acting on the business and driving change success via multidimensional directions.

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