Innovation Management: How can we introduce innovation into the DNA of 21st century companies?

February 23, 2022

Employees struggling with their daily work ‘don’t have time’ to take a more creative approach in their company. Despite numerous Design Thinking workshops and Hackathons, most traditional companies fail to develop a culture of innovation. Yes, innovation is failing!

But, even if we are clearly aware of the dire need to promote innovation, why is this not taking place? What can we do to create an innovation mindset in the organization, starting today?

Getting Agile Transformations Right

February 16, 2022

Mario Brückner, Management 3.0 Facilitator and author of Living Transformation®, shares some key insights he has gained from years of experience accompanying organizational transformations in businesses in a range of industries around the world. Despite their heterogeneity, he observed distinct patterns – particularly of dysfunction – common to all these organizations. Knowing about these may help you in your endeavor of getting agile transformations right!

Becoming a Change Agent & Being a Change Manager: What does it mean?

July 6, 2021

What does it mean to be a Change Manager? How do you become a Change Agent, and what does this role imply? Most common questions answered in one go.

Do we Change the Environment or People? The Five I’s model explained

June 29, 2021

The Five I’s model for change management: Generate ideas on how to change the environment to impact teamwork or people.

The PDCA model explained

June 24, 2021

The PDCA is an iterative and incremental practice for controlling and continuously improving processes and products. It is a way of finding out how wrong we are and learning from that knowledge. The PDCA model explained.

Why Change Management Is Crucial When Implementing Recruitment Process Outsourcing

June 4, 2020

by Kateryna Boiko In the race to find new approaches in acquiring talent from around the world, companies step back from the traditional recruitment process and outsource their employees. The demand for hiring dedicated development teams is at a peak as it saves costs, drives efficiency, and maintains top-notch quality. Let’s define what Recruitment Process...

How Complexity Leads to Solutions (Cynefin Framework and the Structure-Behavior Model)

May 19, 2020

by Gino Terentim a Management 3.0 Facilitator A few weeks ago I wondered how to start this article when I received a WhatsApp message saying that I had to talk about complexity. There was an episode in Honduras, where a bridge was built on the Choluteca River, and used to cross the river. Until then, everything...

Try the community-driven approach for lasting change management

December 4, 2017

by Shahin Sheidaei Change is only constant in the world we live in, and you are a part of it! In fact, you are in the business of Change. You may be influencing the change of people’s behavior and/or their processes. You might be directing a change, focusing on the process versus people aspect of...

A fearless change management game

April 10, 2017

by Christof Braun Change is everywhere. Change is accelerating. Change is the new normal. If you don’t change, you get left behind. Nowadays, not changing is like moving backwards. Also see: Change Management module Are you scared yet? Or at least a little worried? Seriously, I believe all of the above statements are actually true,...

How to run a Lean Change Cycle

March 8, 2017

by Sarah Baca Recently I had a doctor’s appointment, and the doctor was talking about how when he works with patients he gives them lots of information. That information includes exercises to help them manage pain. But getting them to actually do those exercises seems impossible. This sounded like a familiar problem to me. I...

Creating a global change agent movement, almost by accident

June 8, 2016

by Jason Little This is the story of Lean Change Management’s Jason Little, and how he became an accidental entrepreneur. It’s been four years since is first book was published, two since he started his lean change agent workshop program, and five since he decided to toss the over-used buzzword ‘agile’ into the toilet for a...

Change Management is Dead

March 9, 2016

by Jason Little I saw a notification popup in my twitter feed a couple of weeks ago: Naturally, I wanted to see what it was that I was supposed to say something about!  So what do I think about that? Read on! Yesterday I chatted with someone at a large bank that employs ~30K people...

Navigating organizational change – a model

February 12, 2014

by Jason Little Over a decade ago, I was one of three people working in an early stage startup. This company was the first to create a mobile content creation and delivery platform for wireless carriers in Canada. One of the co-founders handled the content licensing, and the other co-founder built and maintained the platform....

Lean Change Management by Jason Little, a new approach to change management

November 15, 2013

by Jason Little I’ve cited this study about change initiative failuresand also questioned its validity. I have observed that the core problems change management professionals and Agile coaches run into are (a)the projectification of highly uncertain pieces of work and (b)how organizations measure performance.These approaches work actively against the success of change initiatives. The ‘pieces of work’ I...

Can a game change management? The French connection

August 19, 2013

by Vasco Duarte The French, they sure are a funny lot. They like to do things their own way. Heck, they even use a different word for computer just to annoy the rest of the world. At the same time they know how to live the good life. If wine hadn’t already been invented, the...