by Nick Anderson | Feb 10, 2015 | Alignment, Change Management, Getting People on the Same Page, Leadership, Project Management
By Nick Anderson, The Crispian Advantage & Terry Merriman, the Performance Suite February, 2015 This outline summarizes our experiences with system implementation and sales management over several decades and provides the basis for our presentation on the Pangs...
by Nick Anderson | Jan 6, 2015 | Alignment, Change Management, Focusing Change To Win, Getting People on the Same Page
The following is based on 684 contributors who chose to add comments on communicating change in the Focusing Change To Win Survey. Unsurprisingly, contributors see their people at the heart of any successful change process. They see gaining stakeholder commitment as a...
by Nick Anderson | Aug 28, 2014 | Alignment, Change Management, Focusing Change To Win, Leadership, Learning, Project Management, Sales Effectiveness
Most of our contributors do measure change, but 37% either don’t measure change or they don’t know if they do or feel measuring change is too difficult. So, here’s some evidence why this is worth struggling with. For example, learning is the most mentioned benefit of...
by Nick Anderson | Aug 28, 2014 | Alignment, Focusing Change To Win
Series Introduction This series highlights contributions from 1072 Business Leaders and Consultants from 80 countries in 19 Industry Sectors detailed in our new book Focusing Change to Win. Each blog gives some of the key findings and a sample of useful tips. Here...
by Nick Anderson | Mar 5, 2014 | Alignment, Change Management, Project Management
(Abstract from Take Control of Your Project – Using Expectation Alignment to Avoid IT Project Failure by Terry Merriman, PCO Associates LLC) Whether large or small, IT projects are complex change events. They need cross-functional collaboration between two or...
by Nick Anderson | Sep 20, 2012 | Alignment, Change Management, Leadership
Globally there is a slow erosion of those binding forces for people to “go that extra mile” . The employee-employer psychological contract is degrading. The degree to which people identify with their job and consider job performance as important to their self-worth...
