For decades, public managers and CIOs have spoken of “managing change.” They designed workshops, built communication plans and rolled out initiatives with clearly defined beginnings, middles and ends.

COVID-19 and the sudden shift to working remotely has accomplished something presidential initiatives, commissions and consultants failed to do—it’s forced work units and their managers to rethink ...

Change management is a multibillion-dollar industry built on the fundamental claim that most people dislike change, and that someone needs to manage that resistance. But after decades of ...

Most in the business world have likely heard of change management, but not necessarily change leadership. What’s the difference, and how can each be applied in your organization? With worldwide events ...

Change is often presented as an enigma. Unlike a traditional management task, you can’t just devise a plan and execute it. To be an effective change leader, you need to embrace a certain amount of ...

Question from Stuart M: Craig, our company is trying to implement a number of big changes and my past experiences tell me they will not go well. We start off with a bang, then shortly thereafter the ...

The Stages of Change Management, also known as the Transtheoretical Model, is a framework originally developed to describe how people change their behavior. It has since been adapted for use in ...

An organization’s desire to be more "proactive" than "reactive" when responding to rapid change can be fulfilled if a "people-focused" change management methodology is adopted and supported by ...

Welcome to my first post in this column dedicated to presenting big ideas by bold thinkers that help us imagine organizational change in new ways. If you want to produce change in the world and wonder ...

The best tools for change management aren’t necessarily tailored toward a digital domain. You can certainly use them there, but for the most part, things are hands-on, and encouraging collaboration is ...

Java application versioning and change management traditionally revolved around version-directory tools like git, and configuration/parameter repositories. These have worked well for decades, but come ...