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Change Management Essentials - 5 Things To Avoid

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Change Management Essentials - 5 Things To Avoid Most organizational/team improvement initiatives we undertake involve change - from current state of affairs to desired state. Change is hard and painful and necessary for growth/survival. “ Have a Wonderful Wednesday!

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Product-based IT: A blueprint for success

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Since that 2011 revelation, Arooni has been doing just that: redefining IT organizations and service delivery models to embrace agile ways of working, including creating product-centric structures with persistent teams responsible for the entire lifecycle of a product.

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It’s Time to Abolish the 70% Change Failure Rate Statistic

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You don’t have to be in or near the field of change management long before you hear a daunting statistic: 70% of change initiatives fail. It’s mentioned in passing as a fact in most change management books and articles nowadays. Is change management challenging?

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Salty to Sweet: The Transformation of Mount Franklin Foods

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For Mount Franklin Foods, a candy and snack manufacturer headquartered in El Paso, Texas, the years leading up to 2011 were tumultuous. When CEO Gary Ricco joined the company in May of 2011, the company had struggled for years to turn a profit. A revolving leadership door had ushered four CEOs in and out in two years.

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

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Leaseplan: A monolith unfit for the emerging digital world After an initially successful SAP deployment at its Australian subsidiary, in 2016 vehicle management company Leaseplan commissioned HCL Technologies to develop a new SAP-based Core Leasing System (CLS) that was to be the heart of the group’s IT transformation across 32 countries.

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What Coaches (and that means you) Can Learn from “The King's Speech”

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» January 03, 2011 What Coaches (and that means you) Can Learn from “The King’s Speech” There are a lot of great things about the holidays. It’s what change management experts call a quick win. Joe Posted by: twitter.com/rikerjoe | January 03, 2011 at 12:20 PM I've not seen the movie yet but do want to.

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Great Quotes: Luc de Brabandere on Change, Innovation and Perceptions

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So to really make change happen, we must change twice – reality and perception.” ” Second quote comes from Luc’s 2011 interview with Boston Consulting Group , where he shares story of how Philips, a traditional electronics company, executed “new box” thinking to realize a new world of possibilities.