A Systematic Guide to Change Management

A SYSTEMATIC GUIDE TO CHANGE MANAGEMENTSystematic Guides are aimed at leaders and managers who need to instantly access 'Organization-Ready' models, practices, checklists and guidance in key subject areas which are logically organized and based on best practice. This guide provides a pragmatic framework for the interventions needed to successfully identify and intervene with key stakeholders in a Change Management project with the objective of winning their support and commitment. The Guide also covers best practices in the roll-out of change within communities. This Guide is also the course book for the popular Cohort Change Management Business Simulation. "Although Ken Thompson brilliantly and quickly summarizes the best of the best change-management thinkers, .... this book is no simple epitome of the best thinking in change management. Ken Thompson is changing change management. He is one of the leading-edge practitioner-thinkers who is carefully evolving change management from a planning discipline into a political one". CHARLES SPINOSA, Ph. D., Group Director & Leader, Strategy and Customer Experience, VISION Consulting"Ken has written a succinct yet powerful summary of change management thinking, approaches and tools, presented in a practical and accessible manner. Excellent reading for anyone involved with the leadership and management of change". CHRIS COLLISON, Author and Former Director of Change and Knowledge Management, Centrica. "This is a must-read for anyone who is involved in leading or helping to champion any organizational change initiative. The guide is full of really useful frameworks, practical tips and pitfalls to avoid. It would take a long time to research all of these dimensions of change management but Ken Thompson manages to compress it all neatly into a very easy-to-read mini bible". NOEL CLERKIN, Senior Principal Consultant at Axialent - improving individual, team and organizational performance."Ken Thompson applies his established system thinking expertise to produce a holistic appraisal of best practices in change management backed up with case studies and exercises. If you need a clear, concise and informed approach to change management whilst equipping yourself with the tools to make it work, this is the book for you". SIMON SCHOLFIELD, System Dynamics expert for the Dow Chemical company.