Eight steps for effective change
In business, the need to change is fairly constant. Businesses that adapt to change effectively are ones that come out on top in the long run and beat their competition. When you have mapped out processes and completed value stream maps, your next task to undertake is to look at how to effectively deliver that change in your organization.
This starts with an eight-step plan for change, the steps of which can be described as follows:
- Identifying what can be improved
- Presenting a business case to stakeholders
- Planning for change
- Identifying resources and data for evaluation
- Communicating
- Evaluating resistance, dependencies, and risk
- Celebrating success
- Continuously improving
Some of these steps will be familiar to you already, since we have already discussed a few of them, but let's now have a look at them all in detail.
Identifying what will be improved
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