Change Factory

When would the Change Factory be relevant for you?

Do you want the capability to successfully manage change within your organisation?

Do you want to have end-to-end support in the planning, implementation and successful adoption of change?

Do you want a change process that is designed specifically to meet your needs?

Do you want change tools, methodologies and templates available to you online?

Do you want to implement change that is meaningful, measurable and sustainable?

If the answer is yes then Change Factory could be right for you.

The Change Factory Approach

We believe that a new approach is needed for managing change; one that combines the disciplines of project management with the richness of change management theory and best practice. Our rigorous approach to change implementation coupled with our development of your change leadership capability and online tools make this different from standard change consultancy approaches.

Our consultants will work as part of your organisation throughout the duration of the change programme. Our preference is to work alongside you and your people at a number of levels:

Strategic Level - working with the overall sponsor to ensure alignment with the vision and to offer guidance to the overall change programme;

Outcome Level - working with change sponsors to agree change outcomes, stakeholder expectations and business benefits;

Programme Level - supporting you to ensure that the change programme achieves its outcomes and delivers to expectations;

Working Level - supporting your own people, often as part of a Core Team, in delivering the planned changes and developing your internal change capability;

Infrastructure Level - providing you with the appropriate change tools and methods at each level of our involvement to ensure that the change programme is successfully delivered.

The Change Factory has a 6-Stage approach to the implementation of change through start up to successful implementation. This phased approach is designed to build momentum whilst ensuring that the foundations for successful change are in place. This will enable you to enjoy a more measured, controlled and predictable change journey, whilst simultaneously building your capability to lead change.

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Initiate Change

Initially, we’ll help you to create a shared understanding of the scope and expected outcomes of the change and the organisation benefits that will be realised. This will give you the foundation to create a joint understanding your organisation’s state of readiness, including capability gaps, and to develop strategies to resolve these. We’ll draw these from your business strategy and may use our Capability Model to identify those factors that need to be improved first.

Develop Change Strategy

At this stage we’ll work with you to understand your organisation’s state of readiness for change and then develop strategies to underpin the successful implementation of your change. This includes:

Establishing the Change team and supporting organisation that will lead the change;
Creating a shared understanding of your organisation’s current state of readiness and leadership capacity to accommodate change;
Developing a high-level appreciation of the impact of changes on people and organisation;
Designing outline strategies for handling the necessary changes to culture and the capacity of your organisation to deliver change.

Prepare for Change

We’ll work with you to prepare your organisation for change and set-up the infrastructure that will underpin the delivery. This includes:

Identification of the priority areas for your initial change;
An agreed approach for stakeholder communication and engagement;
A solid understanding for the impact that change will have on your people and organisation;
A designed approach for managing the commitment and motivation of your people throughout the change;
Establishment of the governance, roles and resources required to manage and implement you change programme

Mobilise Change

We’ll help you to scope the change projects for this cycle of change, agree how they will be managed and plan and resource their delivery. This includes:

Setting up the project environment;
Initiation of the change work streams including Change Leaders and agreed charters;
Definition and shared understanding of key roles and team;
Identification and appointment of Change agents from your organisation;
Assessment of the commitment of your sponsors
Defined strategies for managing key stakeholders

Deliver and Embed Change

We’ll ensure that your change work streams deliver a coherent set of changes by:

Ensuring your outcomes remain aligned to the goals of the change cycle;
Integrating the programme of work and consolidating progress and issues;
Maintaining an overall engagement strategy and plan for all work-streams;
Embedding the changes by introducing reinforcing structures, roles and behaviours;
Providing day-to-day coaching and advice to Change Leaders;
Reviewing and contributing to the production of key delivererables

Learn and Adjust

We’ll ensure that you learn and benefit from your change experience by:

Embedding any local improvements within your own Change Factory;
Providing day-to-day coaching and advice to ‘Change Leaders’
Holding training and education sessions at the start of each stage of change
Holding regular ‘Change Clinics’ throughout the change cycle to exchange learning
Providing a tailored leadership development programme to Change Leaders
Facilitating ‘Lessons Learnt’ sessions at the end of each ‘change cycle’

What do you get from Change Factory?

An integrated methodology for managing change that has been tailored to your situation;

A proven approach to change that has delivered successful change implementations;
Training in the use of our methods and in how to get the most from your own Change Factory;
Access to a wide range of online tools, templates and checklists that give you predictability and control;
Clear reporting and tracking tools that allow you to measure your successes and manage your stakeholders and remain in control;
The capability and tools within your organisation to lead change on an ongoing basis;
Support and tools to managed your stakeholders and people throughout your change programme;
Well managed communication, engagement and cultural change;

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