Organizational Transformation

Managing Strategic Change

Do you want to implement a strategic change in your organization, but are concerned that it will not stick? If you do decide to move ahead, how do you know when the time is right?

Ewing Change Consulting provides strategic change management services that can help guide you through small changes and large.

Introducing, executing and reaping the benefits of strategic change in organizations requires several key factors including: an open mind, persistence, and an urgent business issue or opportunity facing a team.

Here are the top 10 questions to consider before implementing a strategic change management strategy:

1. What has been our dream for this organization and have we been living up to it?
2. What is the urgent need that is driving this proposed change? Why are we considering it?
3. What works well in our organization that might be a source of strength as we strive to create the change that is needed?
4. If we rated ourselves on a scale of 1 to 10 where 10 is excellent, how would we rate ourselves on:
   • Customer or client intimacy?
   • Operational excellence?
   • Product or service innovation?
   • Where do we need to be on each of these?
5. What are the risks of doing this change versus not doing it and for whom?
6. Whom will this change most benefit and how?
   • Stakeholders?
   • Senior leaders?
   • Staff?
   • Customers?
   • The Public?
   • Others?
7. What are the available levers we can pull to bring about this change?
   • Political?
   • Operational (technical or financial)?
   • Cultural?
8. Who needs to be involved and when and how?
9. Are we dreaming big enough to truly get the exciting future that we could have?
10. What other questions should we be asking ourselves that we might be missing? And if we were missing some questions, what would they be?