Change Starts Here

JUNE 3, 2014

You don’t have to be in or near the field of change management long before you hear a daunting statistic: 70% of change initiatives fail. It’s mentioned in passing as a fact in most change management books and articles nowadays. Is change management challenging? A few have been utter failures.

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Kotter Champy Hammer Short-term 143

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

With a bit more attention, this general term can be separated into concrete human traits, applicable to a company, teams, and individuals. With such measurements, one can make reasonable predictions (pre-merger) about how companies and teams will collaborate, where it will be easy, and where there will be conflict.

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Champy Engineering Maturity Guidelines 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. Making sure the company's key processes are delivering competitive advantage , or if not, that the right fixes are on the way.

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15