Real Time Strategic Change

"New ways of doing business introduce fundamental changes into the way an organization and the people in it operate on a daily basis."

"The real time strategic change approach enables senior executives, middle managers, and front line workers to pool their collective perspectives."

"Because this approach is founded on a set of principle-based processes and practices, it is highly flexible in application, and can be used to support a wide variety of change initiatives."

"Because things move so quickly and are highly responsive to emerging data, key decisions are made on a continuing basis."

"The size and scope of the large group events appear to be limited only by our own courage and that of our clients'."

"The real time strategic change technology typically involves taking hundreds of people out of their normal jobs in an organization for two to three days at a time."

"The real time strategic change approach is not a one-shot miracle cure for whatever ails an organization or the people who work in it."

"Trusting the process is often one of the greatest investments required from participants in a real time strategic change process."

"The Real time strategic change process makes it possible for the thinking of all key stakeholders to be considered when formulating the overall strategy."

"The real time strategic change approach both requires and creates a strong, aligned leadership team in an organization."

"People who want to make a difference discover many avenues for supporting a real time strategic change effort."

"With the right information, people are capable of acting with well informed discretion, furthering their organization's goals, as well as their own."

"By having more people making changes, you move further, faster."

"Real time strategic change technology has embedded within it processes for systemic analysis and synthesis."

"Working to match the appropriate process methodology to people's natural desires throughout these events makes it possible for several hundred-person meetings to be efficient and effective."

"The critical point is that the real time strategic change technology is flexible and capable enough to address any or all of these diverse types of changes."

"Systematic implications stretch across entire organizations."

"A handful of general phases consistent with a sound consultation model help define the scope of work required to ensure success from real time strategic change."

"No matter how rapidly people implement changes, if these changes do not respond to the relevant issues, all of them, your efforts will be significantly wasted."

"The overall purpose of your change effort needs to meet the same criteria as a purpose statement for an individual real time strategic change event."

"Answering the question of who needs to be involved in the change effort includes thinking through both internal and external stakeholders."

"There are two benefits to creating a change effort that enable people to influence their organization's strategy."

"Ensuring that people across an entire organization are operating with informed discretion is a key to making real time strategic change happen."

"The following questions will help you determine how to best support people in making real time strategic changes."

"With a clear, agreed purpose in hand, decisions and their accompanying tradeoffs become clearer."

"Each real time strategic change event is planned by a design team comprised of a microcosm of those people who will actually attend the event."

"The meeting process itself needs to encourage people to move beyond their initial skepticism and get down to work"

"Leaders support the success of a real time strategic change process in seven key ways."

"The roles design team members play during an event alternate between thinking and acting as participants and thinking and acting as a design team."

"Each role a consultant plays is part of a larger whole."

"Logistics for a successful real time strategic change process is a lot like stage management for a Broadway play."

"Outside presenters help create spaces for people to explore new ways of doing business."

"Following are four examples of new ways of doing business that various organizations have institutionalized as part of their real time strategic change processes."

"Fundamental, far-reaching, and fast-paced change is a realistic, achievable result for organizations committed to a real time strategic effort."