Do major change programmes continually throw you off course, leaving you exposed to unforeseen impacts? Are your business leaders frustrated at an apparent lack of operational readiness when it comes to implementing change? Are the people on your front-line fed up with last minute change deliveries leaving them exposed to workarounds to have any chance of delivering for the customer?
It’s a common situation that we see in many organisations. Disconnects between strategic change programmes and operational reality leave the business exposed and simply not prepared for what’s coming. It is self-inflicted harm which has direct, knock-on implications for customers.
Having a high quality resource planning cycle which encompasses stakeholders across the full breadth of the business is one of the keys to eliminating this problem.
Done well, your resource planning will significantly support and influence major change programmes – scenario planning outcomes and different options to aid decision making. Most importantly, it will help translate those strategic change plans into realistic, practical actions for your operations to take and help ensure true operational readiness. Not least it will give your people a fighting chance of ensuring they, and your customers, see the true, intended benefits and outcomes.
Three Top Tips:
Take a proactive and positive approach to change and provide scenarios/options, turning up to say no all the time will not win you any favours and will likely see you excluded
Use your network to have the right conversations to understand the true drivers of strategic change, and gain clarity of the outcomes needed for all stakeholders, to support your scenario planning
Embed change into your plans, it is really business as usual; your modelling will need to be flexible and fast, timely responses are very important
If you want to influence major change and stop being an after-thought for delivery, then we can help. Take a look at our new for 2024, affordable, consultancy modules and choose what is right for you at selectplanning.co.uk. Or give Adrian or Keith a call.
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