To improve the success rate of change in an organization, an agenda that takes change as seriously as a yearly business plan does running the business needs to be established. No matter how vast and profitable, no business can afford to pay dozens or even hundreds of people to work on change initiatives that don’t create results. Should an organization run more than a few, there is a good chance that both business change and run the business are suffering. Despite ideas otherwise, change initiatives can work in conjunction with run the business objectives. For example, if a company wanted to convert over to the lasted version of an operating system, but discovered half the world couldn’t read documents created by the word processor and spreadsheet program (thereby alienating clients), they might put off that change initiative until a serviceable conversion update was issued. Examples like these show how business change does not need to contrary to the pursuit of business at hand.

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