Organizational Change Management

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Successful organizational change management: Reality or aspiration?

Change is the new constant. The typical organization today has undertaken five major firmwide changes in the past three years — and nearly 75% expect to multiply the types of major change initiatives they will undertake in the next three years. Yet half of change initiatives fail, and only 34% are a clear success.

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    Open-source change management strategy

    Modern organizations with flatter organizational structures and complex reporting lines can vastly improve the likelihood of change success by adopting an open-source change management strategy. This approach can help you increase the probability of change success by up to 22%, cut implementation time by up to one-third, and reduce time spent on change by up to 12 hours per week per employee.

    Is Your Workforce Capable of Responding to Changing Business Needs?
    Arj Bagga, Director, Advisory

    Organizational Change Management Insights You Can Use

    Incorporating open-source strategies into organizational change management approaches can help you increase employee engagement, discretionary effort, intent to stay and productivity. An open-source approach can also help you decrease implementation time by one-third and lower the number of change resistors in your organization.

    Helping to drive digital business transformation 

    With digital a top priority for more than 90% of corporate leaders and organizations poised to spend $1.7 trillion on digital transformation in 2019, HR leaders must be prepared to play the right role in enabling this transformation.

    Improving M&A success

    Gartner studied 72 mergers and acquisitions and identified the key factors that differentiate successful M&A initiatives from the rest. Learn more about how to have successful change throughout a merger or acquisition. 

    Getting employees to execute change

    Gartner surveyed more than 6,500 employees and over 100 CHROs around the globe, and found that the best organizations rely on their workforce, not executives, to lead transformational change. Discover how to move toward more inclusive strategies by making three significant shifts.

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    Gartner Organizational Change Management Case Studies

    How does Gartner help with managing change?

    Dondi Dix, VP of Talent and Organization Development, Dairy Farmers of America, discusses how she collaborated with Gartner to navigate organizational changes after tripling in size after multiple acquisitions. 

    When we integrated two companies, we utilized Gartner, tools and experience from other companies to achieve success.

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    Vice President Corporate Communication and Public Affairs, H.Lundbeck A/S

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