In our experience, successful change starts with carefully considered planning and stakeholder alignment. It is vitally important that everyone involved in the change has common understanding and belief in what is going to be done, how, by whom, when and for what reason. Perhaps most importantly, how the change affects them and their people.

​

We help organisations at this crucial step in the change as so often, we see complicated business cases hustled through the approvals process, with insufficient attention paid to organisational readiness for change.  We work with you to paint a clear and compelling reason for change and describe the to-be in a way that will resonate with your organisation. 

 

Working with you, we assess and define the key dimensions that need to be in place to affect rapid, successful change.  Some of these considerations are:

   - How you will know that the change has been successful

   - Validate the business case, ensuring that delivery focuses on delivery of benefits, not functionality

   - Understand your stakeholders through mapping and careful, considerate engagement

   - Assess your organisation's appetite for change: is an incremental improvement sufficient, or are you seeking market-leading change?

​

We have developed a number of accelerators and tools that support and guide us in this phase, all of which are part of our secret-sauce, the Humewood Navigator. 

​

We conduct this phase on all our assignments that start at this phase; we can also provide an independent assessment of your approach and readiness as part of a short, sharp consulting engagement.