ChangeAide is a toolkit for Programme and Project Teams using the Product Based Planning approach to deliver results according to defined and managed plans.
 
Successful Change requires:

• A Vision of what you want to achieve
• Some Dissatisfaction or motivation to do something different today
• Some practical Next steps to move towards the vision.

These are three elements of the Change Equation where:

V x D x N    >    Cost (Money + Psychological)

When Vision, Dissatisfaction with the current state and practical Next steps exist, there is a chance a change will occur. The product of the three variables must be perceived to be greater than the costs. The costs are both psychological and tangible costs.

Today, we know that the:

• Rate of change increasing
• Need for effective change becoming critical
• Time to change needs to be shorter
• Complexity of change is increasing
• the dependencies are becoming much more visible

Change must become easy and predictable using a repeatable Change Process taking into consideration all Change Components.

Albert Einstein has also given us a clue about the way we think about change:

Without changing our thinking, we may not really solve the underlying problem.

T. S. Eliot gives us another view of change. Change is a journey not a destination:

“And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets. 

Change is a process. Each cycle through the process contributes to achieving the vision.

This ChangeAide web site is pulling together pointers to sources of information and tools that can assist you to navigate change in your organisation and your life.

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