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Change is the only constant, and a great opportunity.
Most strategies or projects are built from:
- Knowledge of what is,
- Prediction (guesswork) of what might be, and
- Identification of resource needs to achieve your goal
Strategies fail because too many times when we do not account for more in the planning stages: more involvement, more dialogue, more reality, more dialogue around change.
If conditions remain the same you expect your strategy and goals deliver as intended. The strategy looked good on paper, but once underway, change happens, the project loses momentum and fails to deliver expected results for anyone.
The reality: 70% – 90% of all projects fail.
Toby Elwin is heavily influenced by systems theory and the impact change has on people and organizations. Successful change relies on interrelated pieces for success and broadly relate to the following blog topic categories:
- Portfolio Planning — Resources, time and money, are always finite, choosing what to spend resources on using a portfolio option view helps identify risk, mitigate risk, and maximize resources. Strategy always offers a host of options. Portfolio planning is taking a look at the risk/return or cost/benefit of each option as a individually and how they combine to make up a portfolio for decision making.
- Organization Behavior — The organization is a social unit and behaves both rationally and irrationally at times, but how leaders learn motivation and behavior is not a one-size-fits-all approach will find a positive inertia for excellence, flexibility, and resilience.
- Talent Management — Managing is maximizing your resources and talent management focuses on maximizing your most important resource: talent. People, process, and technology are often lumped into a strategy review, but without people, process and technology are irrelevant.
- Marketing — Not only consumer- or business-facing communication, marketing is also important in how you position your organization’s strategy and needs, because if people don’t resonate with the message there is little effort to achieve organization goals.
- Odds & Sods — An affectionately titled catchall topic that covers random technology, current events, and items of interest worth sharing.
Visit Toby’s blog to connect and comment or use the contact form for further information on:
- Strategic Planning
- Business Development
- Marketing
- Portfolio Management
- Facilitation
- Training
Change is constant, how you plan for change provides continued opportunity to excel.
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