A CMO or Change CoE is often considered a nice-to-have, which means having to repetitively explain its purpose, begging for respect and budget and a pressure to prove the return for every initiative. Ultimately, we’re looking for the organisation allocate adequate resources and consider the CMO or Change CoE as a business critical discipline. How and what can we start communicating to illustrate its ROI?
Read MoreWhether you have a Change Community of Practice or you are out there pioneering change management, the “Change Lab” approach is a different way to attack your change priorities. We believe every change leader should adopt the use of Change Labs, here’s why…
Read MoreWhen we survey CMO leads and change practitioners we hear quite frequently that good, effective sponsorship is rare. They are not sure ‘what else’ they can do - in addition to securing resources, mediating a conversation here and there, and delivering presentations - to help change efforts. Where can we start in driving effective sponsorship?
Read MoreThe application of artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities will only enhance CMOs abilities to derive sound objective insights. However, those CMOs that are unable to address questions around their ability to support the Executive with objective decisions making risk losing relevance.
Read MoreThe journey to change portfolio management is a tricky one; fraught with challenges but, when applied effectively, is ultimately part of an organization’s key competitive advantage. What problems or motivations drives CMO leaders to want to explore more effective change portfolio management?
Read MoreChange management is now mainstream in many organizations and yet it feels as though change management and agile are not integrated in a way that lets new value emerge. Change management should be experienced as both a salve and an accelerant - let’s give it a try with the 12 principles of agile.
Read MoreWe need change capable orgainzations, where change management is a core competence for people leaders and individual contributors. A Community of Practice is one of the best ways to achieve this. Ursula Erasmus discusses the role of the Community of Practice in change capable organizations.
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