Sunday, August 7, 2022

Initiatelevelsofchange

Change shouldn’t be just a couple of casual business initiatives for reacting to changes, but a cohesive business competency.

Change is inevitable to survive in the “VUCA” reality. There are structural changes or technical changes; internal change or outside-in change; process change or people change. There are different levels of change such as incremental, radical, or transformative changes. 

You must understand the concept of the true meaning of the nonlinear organizational dynamic, both hard and soft success factors of changes. Some additional variables that might merit consideration are the scope, scale, and impact of the changes. Change shouldn’t be just a couple of casual business initiatives for reacting to changes, but a cohesive business competency.

Incremental changes: Change happens when changing is easier than maintaining the status quo, and more importantly, when people no longer feel threatened by it. An incremental change such as employee behavior/performance improvement, or software update can be implemented and evaluated by users with measurable results. 

Usually incremental change is for reaping some quick benefit, individually or collectively. Improvement is a form of incremental change. After reasoning the philosophical “why,” the systematic “where,” the technical “know-how,” makes change really happen. All stages must be handled with attention and proficiency to ensure success.

Radical change: Radical change often needs to restructure the root of the company such as organizational values, beliefs, culture, and objectives. For radical change with high complexity, it's critical to account for cross-cutting concerns, putting a change puzzle together requires trying different pieces, being flexible and willing to put a piece aside to find another more appropriate piece. 

 Change is difficult because it evolves both the learning curve and the emotional cycle behind it; there are both hard processes and soft touches. It is a multi-stepped process that includes both change resolution and management discipline. In order to execute a successful change management scenario, there is a need to delegate roles and responsibilities of the process, and have a strong-honest communication plan in place, enforce a healthy emotional cycle, build a culture of change, and lead radical change smoothly.

Transformative change:
Managing change is like an upward spiral. Digitalization is the large-scale business transformation with ecosystem impact. As transformative change unfolds into a wider multi-dimensionally systemic business continuum, you must understand the concept of the true meaning of the nonlinear organizational dynamic, to improve organizational or societal fluidity and people-centricity. 

It’s important to take a logical scenario, apply the right principles, strategy and methodology, and set out dynamic planning for managing changes smoothly. The more complex the change is, the more comprehensive the changing scenario needs to be .Without a system-wide perspective, a single-dimensional change approach perhaps leads to silo or unwanted complexity. Thus, it’s important to communicate within the spiral of conscious awareness and apply interdisciplinary expertise and approach to manage the large-scale transformation in a structural way.

Organizational change is a complex human-centric process and management science. Change purposes, methodologies, and practices should be updated and well understood. Businesses will be more successful when they realize that one of their greatest strengths will be their changeability. The very successful organizations must manage a portfolio of change initiatives with different levels of scopes, impacts, prioritized with adequate support, across the whole spectrum - make the current business better; look for new business and everything in between.

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