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Choose Change!

Lead Change Blog

Rogers categorizes coworkers into five groups, according to how they deal with accepting new ideas: The innovators are always in for a new idea and are quick to adopt; often also quick to drop an idea in favor of a new, more attractive looking idea. If the change is good, the early innovator will come along anyway. Who to Target.

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Change Management Lessons from Eating Snakes and Rats

Lead Change Blog

Keep that perspective in mind as our change management back story. Students who were brave early adopters followed them, filling their plates and heading for a table to show off to their buddies, all with the admiration of the instructors. Change Management Starts With Compelling Rationale. People do not resist change.

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3 Major Challenges Financial Institutions Face When Implementing Business Insight Technology

Strategy Driven

A Resistant Culture. This kind of resistance is possible across different levels of the enterprise, from upper management to rank-and-file banking staff. Also worth explaining to your colleagues is that the tech will put you in a highly competitive position: that of an early adopter.

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Are Millennials Turning Away From The Latest Tech?

The Horizons Tracker

In some aspects of technology, there are clear signs that millennials are actively resisting the march of technology. It revealed that millennials have been early adopters of smart technology, but they are also the most nervous age group when it comes to the privacy implications of having an array of smart devices in the home.

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Sidelining Those Who Don’t Play Nice With Change

Change Starts Here

Common sense calls for enlisting the early adopters first to gain momentum while keeping the more difficult converts at bay. However difficult it may be to deal with their resistance up front, involving them early may be less painful than trying to have them jump into the project after much work has been done without their input.

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BPM should focus on people, not technology

Chartered Management Institute

This software often allows companies to monitor process performance and implement changes in real-time, a stark contrast to days of yore when managers would have to wait until the end of the week or month to see how changes had performed. Complexity is much more manageable. You can target early adopters.

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What is the Role of HR in the modern enterprise?

Chartered Management Institute

Technologies such as Yammer and Work.com have been changing how we collaborate and manage performance respectively. Manage your expectations. Scale things – Once you have both some successful results on a small scale AND emotional buy-in from the key early adopters across your organisation, you can then look to scale things.