Breaking It Down

Abstract

One of the reasons change efforts fail (in addition to be being poorly defined or poorly supported) is that they are often too big. If you want to make your change effort successful, you must break it down into smaller change efforts that can be managed and executed more easily. In this way, you will have the ever important quick wins that initiate the positive forward momentum on the road to eventual change success. The biggest challenge is to find the pace of change the organization can successfully absorb and maintain until the change initiative (or project) is complete.