Charting Change: A Visual Toolkit for Making Change Stick

  • 3h 37m
  • Braden Kelley
  • Palgrave Macmillan Ltd
  • 2016

There are two things we know about change, that it is inevitable and that it is hard. Organizational change is accelerating and companies know they need to be more agile and capable of continuous change. This presents a huge challenge for most organizations. Let’s face it. Initiating change is a scary, overwhelming process that we often all try to avoid because we lack the tools to make the process more human, collaborative, visual, and digestible. That is about to change. Charting Change was created to give managers the tools they need to organize desired changes in a way that steps a group of people through the change planning process, accumulating buy-in and an understanding of what it will take to execute, all along the way. Everything about this book, from the chapter page illustrations to the toolkit itself is designed to make change more accessible and more human, blending the technical and artistic elements of its pursuit.

Readers will learn how to effectively plan for change and will be provided with best practices for organizational change.

Once you are done reading Charting Change you will approach any big change with confidence.

About the Author

Braden Kelley, author of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire, has been advising companies on how to grow their revenue and cut their costs since 1996. Braden is a popular keynote speaker, workshop leader, and thought leader on the topics of continuous innovation and change, speaking frequently to enthusiastic crowds around the world. He works with clients to create innovative strategies, digital transformations, and increased organizational agility. Braden has published numerous commissioned white papers and more than 500 articles for online publications (including articles translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese and Swedish). He received a BS from the University of Oregon in 1993 and an MBA from the London Business School in 2004.

In this Book

  • Charting Change─A Visual Toolkit for Making Change Stick
  • Preface
  • Changing Change
  • Planning Change
  • Understanding the Current State
  • Bonus Feature—Challenging Top-Down Change
  • Exploring Readiness for Change and Transitions
  • Envisioning the Desired State
  • Bonus Feature—Generating Dramatic Surges of Progress
  • Picking the Right Target for Your Change Effort
  • The Benefits of Change
  • The People Side of Change
  • Barriers and Obstacles to Change
  • Bonus Feature—Reverse Engineer Your Strategy by Asking “What Must Be True?”
  • Not Everything about Change Is Wonderful
  • Breaking It Down
  • Now What (The Resource Challenge)
  • Bonus Feature—Bracing for the Next Wave of Change
  • Building the Case for Change
  • Bonus Feature—Selling Change
  • Communicating Change
  • Bonus Feature—StoryDoing® and Organizational Change
  • Leading Change
  • Bonus Feature—How Successful Leaders Champion Change in Today’s Organizations
  • Innovation Is All about Change
  • Bonus Feature—Don’t Dream Alone—Story of Grass-Roots Innovation in a Fortune 500 Company
  • Project and Portfolio Management Are about Change
  • Bonus Feature—How Companies Are Discovering New Pathways for Digital Transformation
  • The Future of Change
  • Bonus Feature—Dancing with Disruption─Forces Shaping the Future of Business
  • Bonus Feature—Change Is Abundant in the Twenty-First Century
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
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