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Big Change, Best Path: Successfully Managing Organizational Change with Wisdom, Analytics and Insight
CMI Management Book of the Year Awards 2017 - Management Futures Category
Using ground-breaking modelling, Big Change, Best Path brings unique insights to the dynamics and process of organizational change, understanding success and failure, defining and describing the drivers and conditions of change, and the patterns and paths of organizational change. Author Warren Parry from Accenture Strategy shows that a whole new way of managing change is possible, from empirical benchmarking, predictive approaches that highlight the specific actions needed at any point of a change programme, and visualization for senior managers to show how each part of an organization is responding. The author also challenges many of the myths of change management and the dynamics of how organizations respond to change, clearly showing the common pitfalls and misunderstandings.
Big Change, Best Path explains a new, more analytical way and process for driving successful change, and presents a ground-breaking vision for the future of how organizations can become more agile and resilient.
Using ground-breaking modelling, Big Change, Best Path brings unique insights to the dynamics and process of organizational change, understanding success and failure, defining and describing the drivers and conditions of change, and the patterns and paths of organizational change. Author Warren Parry from Accenture Strategy shows that a whole new way of managing change is possible, from empirical benchmarking, predictive approaches that highlight the specific actions needed at any point of a change programme, and visualization for senior managers to show how each part of an organization is responding. The author also challenges many of the myths of change management and the dynamics of how organizations respond to change, clearly showing the common pitfalls and misunderstandings.
Big Change, Best Path explains a new, more analytical way and process for driving successful change, and presents a ground-breaking vision for the future of how organizations can become more agile and resilient.
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291 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 28, 2015
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December 6, 2015
Change should not be feared, but actively gripped and managed. This book aims to show a way of effecting change in a structured, insightful way whilst keeping a sense of humour and motivation.
As you would expect, the author takes the reader through the entire thought and implementation process for change – it is a lot more than just deciding to do B instead of A. Sacred cows or myths can be brushed aside in the process, leading to a more focussed, professional change process that will ideally be successfully implemented.
A lot of research has contributed to the author’s expert commentary – over fifteen years of research collecting responses from over 750,000 individual respondents in change programmes affecting hundreds of big companies worldwide. Such body of research is even allowing predictions of change outcomes to be made by identifying the dynamics occurring within an organization. The research has identified 10 key drivers of performance in change initiatives and successful change depends on having as many of these KPIs in place as possible – the author guides you towards these areas and aims to help you achieve them.
There is no shortage of books detailing change processes and general management strategies, yet this author has produced something that has carved out its own niche in this crowded sector, delivering a compelling, informative and engaging book in the process. The careful, open reader could even use the core information from this book to successfully implement change within their personal lives too with a modicum of modification.
All in all, an interesting book that managed to make an often-dry subject come to life and engage the reader.
Autamme.com
As you would expect, the author takes the reader through the entire thought and implementation process for change – it is a lot more than just deciding to do B instead of A. Sacred cows or myths can be brushed aside in the process, leading to a more focussed, professional change process that will ideally be successfully implemented.
A lot of research has contributed to the author’s expert commentary – over fifteen years of research collecting responses from over 750,000 individual respondents in change programmes affecting hundreds of big companies worldwide. Such body of research is even allowing predictions of change outcomes to be made by identifying the dynamics occurring within an organization. The research has identified 10 key drivers of performance in change initiatives and successful change depends on having as many of these KPIs in place as possible – the author guides you towards these areas and aims to help you achieve them.
There is no shortage of books detailing change processes and general management strategies, yet this author has produced something that has carved out its own niche in this crowded sector, delivering a compelling, informative and engaging book in the process. The careful, open reader could even use the core information from this book to successfully implement change within their personal lives too with a modicum of modification.
All in all, an interesting book that managed to make an often-dry subject come to life and engage the reader.
Autamme.com
December 29, 2017
If you read the first 2 chapters and 50 pages of this book, you will get about 80-90% of the value from the book. These 2 chapters describe the analytics approach and data collection that the author did on change programs at companies around the word. It is an impressive data set gathered and it enables some broad insights on how change really works and how to make it more effective. All the major conclusions are given in the first 2 chapters and then the last 10 chapters expand into more detail on these main conclusions. So I found it harder to finish it although it started off really well, highly insightful. You won't find any disagreement from me when someone tries to answer big, important questions with data.
October 29, 2015
Big data, modeling and predictive analytics are terms that have really taken off in the world of business and in other sectors.
Don't be intimidated by their technical nature. Basically there are mathematical algorithms that can be implemented to predict one's tendencies, so to speak.
Parry explains clearly how useful these concepts can be in the business world. This is where computer software can augment humans into making better decisions.
Business is not static but fluid and therefore to take their company to the next level, if you are using Parry's techniques, you probably won't maximize output from your employees, nor maximize profit.
Don't be intimidated by their technical nature. Basically there are mathematical algorithms that can be implemented to predict one's tendencies, so to speak.
Parry explains clearly how useful these concepts can be in the business world. This is where computer software can augment humans into making better decisions.
Business is not static but fluid and therefore to take their company to the next level, if you are using Parry's techniques, you probably won't maximize output from your employees, nor maximize profit.
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