Change Whisperer – Gail Severini's Blog


Innovating Project and Change Management to generate better results—Book Review

Few organizations have figured out how to do strategy execution well.  One of the enigmas of implementation continues to be the gap between project management and change management.  This post is a review of a new book that tackles this very challenge. The Next Evolution—Enhancing and Unifying Project and Change Management: The Emergence One Method for Total Project Success is by Thomas Jarocki (Brown & Williams Publishing LLC, NJ, USA, 2011).

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Internal social media – engaging your organization – a status check (Part 2 of 2)

Are organizations leveraging internal social media today?

According to media reports, internal social media is beginning to get traction: “As social networks increasingly dominate communications in private lives, businesses of all sizes — from tiny start-ups to midsize companies like Nikon to behemoths like Dell — are adopting them for the workplace.” (1)

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Internal social media – engaging your organization – a status check (Part 1 of 2)

What if our organization was energized? If everyone understood the vision and the strategy and contributed enthusiastically to moving us forward? How would we talk to each other?  Maybe it would look like the best of our meetings – agreeing and disagreeing, compromising, collaborating, loud, messy even, but always vibrant.  It seems to me that internal social media should look like this and create this kind of traction. 

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About this blog – 2012

This is a blog about Strategy Execution, about implementing change and driving ROI to the bottom line. It is intended for:

  • Boards of Directors and Leaders who wonder “what on earth happens to the great strategy that we pipe into the top of the organization?”
  • Program, Project and Change Management practitioners trying to manage the weather systems of change raining inside the organization

Every professional who has undertaken a daunting strategy recognizes the high organizational, and personal, risk. In fact, studies peg the failure rate at 70%.   Yet success is entirely feasible for those who prepare, deliver and follow through with discipline.  And, more good news, there are innovations in execution that many organizations have only begun to tap into. 

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