Change and Transformation
Strategy tools in the Change and Transformation category.
29 tools
- 5 Step Process for Turnaround Management — Assess, stabilise, plan, implement, monitor - the sequence for turning round a business in trouble.
- Agile Organization Design — Restructure around small cross-functional teams owning outcomes, instead of departments handing work to each other.
- Agile Portfolio Management — Re-prioritise the whole initiative portfolio on a short cycle, so funding follows what's working.
- Agile Transformation Model — A staged path from traditional project management to agile ways of working, assessment through to sustained change.
- Appreciative Inquiry — A change method that studies what's already working and builds the future from those strengths, not from a deficit list.
- Barriers to Adoption — List the specific reasons real people won't switch to your new product or process, so effort goes into removing the actual blocker.
- Business Process Reengineering — Redesign a process from a blank page around the customer outcome, instead of patching what exists.
- Change Management — Move people from the old way of working to the new one deliberately, and reinforce it until it sticks.
- Cynefin Framework — Sort a problem by how clear cause and effect is, so you use the right approach, not the default one.
- Digital Maturity Model — Score your digital capability against fixed levels, ad hoc to optimised, to see what stage comes next.
- Digital Transformation Roadmap — Sequence technology, people and process changes into an order, so investment doesn't scatter.
- Digital Transformation Strategy — Set the direction for how digital technology changes the way the business competes, not just what it buys.
- Dynamic Capabilities Framework — Lasting advantage comes from sensing, seizing and reconfiguring faster than rivals can copy you.
- Efficiency and sustainability tradeoff — Name the specific trade-off between an efficiency gain and its sustainability cost, instead of assuming win-win.
- Futures Wheel — Map first, second and third-order consequences of a decision outward from a central topic.
- Green Management — Build environmental practice into how a business runs, not bolt it on as a press release.
- HP's Turnaround Strategy — The real case: HP's mid-2000s turnaround shows cost simplification before growth, not alongside it.
- Inclusive Business Model Canvas — Adapt the Business Model Canvas to design ventures that serve excluded customers profitably.
- Jacobides' Business Strategy for a Shifting Landscape — Map where value is moving across your industry's ecosystem and claim the bottleneck before a rival does.
- Lewin's Change Management Model — Unfreeze old habits, make the change, then refreeze it as the new normal before it slides back.
- Lewin's Force-Field Analysis — List the forces driving a change against the forces restraining it, then work the restrainers, not just the drivers.
- NUDGE Theory — Change the default or framing of a choice, not the options, so people naturally pick what serves them.
- Social Impact Measurement — Track what changed for people or the environment, not just what activity you delivered.
- Social Return on Investment (SROI) — Put a monetary value on social outcomes and express them as a ratio against what was invested.
- Strategic Agility — Sense shifts early, keep leadership aligned, and move resources fast - three capabilities, not a plan.
- Sustainability and Circular Economy Model — Redesign the business so materials are recovered and reused instead of extracted, used once and binned.
- Turnaround Management — The disciplined sequence for reversing real decline: stabilise first, then fix the cause, not the reverse.
- Using the Greiner Curve — Five growth phases, each ending in its own crisis - so you know which one is coming for you.
- Wardley Maps — Map your value chain by visibility to the customer and by evolution, novel to commodity, to decide where to build vs buy.