Thoughtful Change Leadership: When Communication is Not Enough
Organisational Change - The Theory Relentless change is a reality of life and is certainly a fundamental element of the leadership of any organisation. The industrial revolution generated the ‘thinkers’…
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The Future is Inter-disciplinary: Thoughts from the HESPA Conference 2020
The HESPA Conference 2020 provided great insight into the value of interdisciplinarity within Professional Services. With a theme of Data and Decisions: When insight influences strategy, there was a lot…
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Beyond the Transformation Programme
At our recent Change Management Community of Practice session, Steve Chadwick, Director of Strategy, Planning and Change at the University of Bristol made a statement, which has stuck with me: …
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Brief Insights from the AUA Managing Change in HE Open Forum: Approaching Change in a Changing Sector
Universities are in the unenviable position of embarking on a new era of challenges. The sector is facing unprecedented change, combined with a high degree of uncertainty, increased competition for…
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What is a Benefit?
At a recent working group session with Procurement professionals at the LUPC & SUPC Conference on 16th May, I was challenged (in a very nice way!) for stating that the…
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Financial Efficiencies – Is your University Fit for the Future?
Universities are in the midst of a perfect storm. Core income is being challenged by a demographic nadir in school leavers and increased competition for student recruitment. Recurrent costs are…
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Preventing the failure of Change Programmes
Depending on the research you read, between 60 and 70% of change and transformation programmes fail. There are a number of reasons given for this high failure rate – insufficient…
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We’ve always done it this way!
I won’t go into these barriers here, but it is this session that made me think about the topic for this blog and the importance of the following three linked…
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