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1). Run the Business / Change the Business – Dual Perspective Proves Key to Success
Change Management is a lot like heart surgery – the surgeon must keep the patient alive while the surgery is under way. Likewise, change managers must maintain the business at the very time they are engaged in changing that business. Many initiatives fail to appreciate the need for this dual perspective – at their peril!

2). Lean Change: Applying Process Improvement to Change Management
For companies to thrive in today’s world of continuous change they must be continuously changing. If so, then change becomes a process constantly at work - just like any other business process they practice. And process improvement techniques - like Lean Manufacture - can be used to get really good at it.

3). A Heart-to-Heart Talk about Process and Change Management
Both process management and change management are hot topics today, but there seems to be a good deal of confusion about their definitions and relationship. This article uses an analogy of heart surgery to explain how they need to be used together in order for organizations to deliver improved business results.

4). The Devil Is In The Details...Of Change
We have all heard about the importance of getting all the details taken care of and getting them handled right. That’s true for wills, contracts, recipes, blueprints and lots of other things. One subject, however, really needs to have attention to detail but it rarely happens. Moving an organization from “doing things one way to doing things another” is a “details job.”

5). A Blindingly Stupid Example of Change Management
Organizations that attempt big change initiatives without thinking things through often look very foolish. This example of one typical snafu can teach a lot about managing change effectively.