June 8, 2009

What kind of change specialist are you?

On his excellent blog, “think for a change”, Paul Williams is asking: “what kind of innovator are you?”, referring to all the innovation specialty areas one can think of such as R&D, innovation management, new product development etc.
Reading this article reminded me of how change management/leadership/facilitation is often seen as a vast, unclear and too conceptual business area, particularly by SME’s managers busy with practical and operational business issues. To quote an ex-colleague: “my dentist could say he is doing change management”. Yes this has to do with how to explain change management in the most simple and practical way, but also being able to break it down into distinctive niches.
Thinking the exercise might be beneficial for myself, here is what I would call an early imperfect an incomplete attempt on a Mindmeister mindmap. And because we have now entered the age of online collaboration, don’t be shy to edit the map yourself here
Change_Management mindmap
From this early version, it is already clear that change management involves a wide range of specialties and competencies. Developing and rolling out a communication plan is very different from analysing the organisational impact of a change. From this, 2 questions:
  1. What is my line of change management expertise?
  2. Where do I need partners?

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