Change Navigator - Navigating your way through the change jungle
The Challenge
Successful business change requires regular, reliable and timely information about an organisation’s capabilities and competencies, together with an understanding of the staff commitment and attitude towards the change and variations across the organisation, in order to identify potential problem areas and focus or re focus change activities. Without this information, change managers are often "flying blind" - making decisions based on instinct rather than logical analysis.
Based on Axactia’s experience of running complex change programmes, Change Navigator has been developed to provide this critical information and put managers in greater control of the change process.
Change Navigator’s Role
The most reliable way to gather information about an organisation’s capabilities and competencies together with an understanding of the staff commitment and attitude towards the change is to question those involved.
Change Navigator allows relevant data to be collected from all people involved in the change process, and for the data to be quickly and simply converted into segmented information and presented to managers. The process can then be repeated periodically to monitor progress over time.
Without Change Navigator, this process would be impractical or cost prohibitive.
Change Navigator In Action
Change Navigator comes with a preset list of competencies, relevant to business change, which can be tailored to meet specific client needs.
The presentation of pre-analysed results, broken down by organisational unit, competency and time, allows managers to quickly identify problem areas, enabling them to actively define, focus, prioritise and, if necessary, re-align the change activities.
Change Navigator makes it practical to provide the information directly to operational and line managers (not just to change / project managers), so that they themselves become integral in defining solutions for their areas. This improves commitment from operational and line managers which dramatically increases the chances of the change being embedded in the business for the long term.
Solving the Challenge
Few change managers and business leaders would wish to embark upon a programme of change without fully understanding the firmness of the foundations on which change was to be applied. Without Change Navigator there is often little choice but to make intuitive decisions based on incomplete information.
Change Navigator brings the essential knowledge for successful business change within reach.
Key Benefits
- Provides a unique (and invaluable) insight into the capability gaps and other barriers to successful change implementation across the business
- Converts individual and local knowledge into organisational knowledge
- Provides evidence to support the change activities undertaken (avoids subjective debates about "beliefs").
- Reduces conflict between change / project managers and operational managers, as they all have access to the same information to support and inform their decisions
- Empowers managers throughout the business in the change process
- Engages all people in the business through inclusion and contribution to the change process
Next Step
For more information on how Change Navigator could help your business then please contact us.