Change isn’t working

April 27, 2015 | No Comments

We need to talk…

There are many talking about the need for organisations to be more responsive to their customers, to their staff, to evolving culture and expectations, to policy, to law, to energy price chaos and resource scarcity, to the need to de-carbonise. The economic paradigm is dysfunctional, the business imperative has been hijacked toward maximising shareholder value instead of serving customers and adding real value for people and planet.

Shift is an opportunity to rally around the complexities of change, and explore more deeply how it happens, why it doesn’t happen, and ways of working with it…. smarter.

The task
69% of employees worldwide aren’t engaged at work, with 17% completely disengaged.
BlessingWhite’s 2011 Employee Engagement Report

98% of UK employees are impacted by stress
Towers Watson’s Health, Wellbeing and Productivity Survey 2012

70% of change programs fail
A much quoted average rate:
“The three-out-of-seven success rate is an average view from many different research findings. Some studies reported success as low as 10%, others as high as 50%. The research span across many industries and countries and the nature of the change initiative studied varied widely—customer relationship ,management , enterprise resource planning , shared services endeavors, supply chain projects, mergers and acquisitions, cost reduction initiatives, restructuring/reorganization efforts, customer experience initiatives, etc. Any way you examine the findings, there is ample evidence that the change initiatives are far more likely to fall short of their stated objectives than to reach their promised outcomes.”
Source and further reading: Caterfly resources

20% of UK employees think their company is playing its part in the battle against climate change (2008 figures)

More…

65% of people seriously consider leaving their job if their company harmed the environment (2010 Forbes Report)

The Copernican Revolution In Management, book review of Thomas Kuhn by Steve Denning

Further articles and resources at Caterfly’s Smarter Working blog
http://caterfly.co.uk/the-buzz/

Shift is happening – 21 July 15, London. Full details and tickets http://events.caterfly.co.uk

** Very Early Bird tickets from £30 until 16 May **

Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: caterfly, change management, employee engagement, Frederic Laloux, organisational change, organisational development, organisational wellbeing, Peter Senge, Reinventing Organisations, Responsive.Org, Shift, Spark The Change, Steve Denning, STOOS, Sustainable business, Thomas Kuhn, Towers Watson, workplace stress