Imagen Consulting

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Want Change? Try A New Path

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As I was drooling over the new iPad2 the other day, I started thinking about the original iMac that is sitting somewhere toward the back of my storage unit. Enormous (and soooo heavy) by today’s computing standards, my bright blue iMac (along with millions of green, orange, pink, purple others) changed Apple’s trajectory. They started down a new path. They did internally exactly what their tag suggested to their customers: “Think Different.”

Yet, far to many change efforts fail because of their lack of willingness to go down a new path. We try to “change without really changing” or plan change without making any provision or sacrifice to make it happen.

Here are the six most common errors made in change or reengineering efforts:

  1. Trying to fix a process instead of changing it
  2. Trying to make reengineering happen from the bottom up
  3. Skimping on assigned resources
  4. Trying to make reengineering happen without making anyone unhappy
  5. Neglecting people’s values and beliefs
  6. Being willing to settle for minor results

In a business environment with so many challenges, you can’t afford any more failed change. Maybe it’s time to “imagen“ a new way forward. Contact us if we can help.