Change Management

  • Capitalizing on Opportunities

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    Yesterday I wrote about executing on change. In the middle of the post I wrote that those organization that are more prepared can capitalize on opportunities. It’s true, one of the great side benefits to doing good change management is the ability to have more time to search, evaluate and capture opportunities. Here are a…

  • Executing Change

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    Last week I wrote about the need to inventory your organization to prepare for change. I also wrote about benchmarking and communicating change. In a brief snapshot of all things change, the three previous articles have all to do with preparing yourself and your organization for the change. Think of the opposite of not being…

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    Check out the Elmore kids reading…

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    Well, the Princess and the Paper is almost ready for mass-distribution. I thought it would be entertaining to see my kids read a part of the book… enjoy – Kyle, Adelle, Ed and Ada reading and acting. Buy the book – The Argument to Automate – How Innovation Can INSPIRE Not Fire – click here to…

  • Communicating Change

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    In a post I wrote a few days ago, I mentioned that I had fallen into the role of change manager. I like the role and as I am frequently reminded change management is a very important part of automating accounting processes. One of the keys to good and positive change is communication. If change…

  • Benchmarking Change

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    Have you ever heard the saying, “if you don’t know where you are going, any road will lead you there”? The writer Lewis Carroll wrote those words. No truer words have ever been written about change. Benchmarking change is one of my favorite subject to write about. If you read my books or this blog just…

  • Phase 1 – Taking Inventory for Change

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    Yesterday I introduced change. Change has been around for a long time. I am sure that change was met with great enthusiasm by cavemen when they came home from hunting and their cave wives had moved all of their cave furniture. In my last post I wrote that there were three phases to change, today I am going…

  • Introducing Change!

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    (In your best “let’s get ready to rumble voice”) AND IN THIS CORNER, WEIGHING IN AT AN UNBELIEVABLE SIZE…. CHANGE! AND IN THE OTHER CORNER IS HIS OPPONENT FOR THIS MATCH. THE UNDISPUTED CHAMP THAT HAS DASHED CORPORATE DREAMS AND PRODUCTIVITY – STATUS QUO!!! I guess that’s  the best way I can introduce my next…