Archive of Transformation

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Leading Change: Mindset’s methodology for designing success from Day One!

Moving to a shared service is fundamentally ‘transforming’ your internal back-of-house functions and therefore requires a change strategy that allows your organisation to design for success from Day One. Using the Mindset change methodology, we were able to provide attendees with useful insights in driving change as opposed to simply managing a project.

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Optimising Shared Services: What’s in it for you?

In today’s market, both global and local markets are highly competitive and with the rise of inorganic growth (through acquisition) across the globe, organisations are constantly on the search for solutions to improve their operational efficiency.

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When Will CEOs Realise That the Soft Skills Are Actually the Hardest?

Change Management is one of the biggest barriers companies face when moving to a Shared Services or Outsourcing model. Many Australian companies are looking at business transformation initiatives such as these to achieve some level of organisational improvement. It may be the need to become more competitive on an international level; broader access to supply constrained skills; or the need to reduce costs and/or improve operational efficiencies.

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The Secret to Implementing a Business Strategy That Gets Executed

A key part of setting strategy (that isn’t always recognised) is achieving true alignment within the business so that there is one single direction and approach, rather than multiple differing ones.

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Agile Intelligence: Innovation is Speed

I recently heard a great presentation from Stuart McLean, CEO of Google Enterprise, who is based here in Australia. Several times Stuart said, “Innovation is speed.” This certainly supports my view of the world we live in and the challenges that both individuals and organisations face with accelerating change now the norm rather than the exception.

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Is the next evolution of Change Management better integration with Project Management?

Where major projects are concerned, experience dictates that change management needs to be clearly articulated at the outset to maximise success and ensure a smooth transition to the new mode of operation, rather than added in as an afterthought or at a secondary stage.

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Dude, Business Planning Could Save You From a Wipe Out. Like, Totally.

As a volunteer surf life saver I spend many hours on the beach watching what's going on. Over the years I have observed that those in the surf fall into two broad categories - those who move with the water, and those that are moved by the water. The really interesting difference between these two groups, is not their relative skill levels, but their level of self-awareness and ability to plan ahead.

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What do Hairdressing and Change Management Have in Common?

It was recently suggested to me that I am a hairdresser. Apparently as a change manager it is my role to come in at the end and make things look nice. Well there may be change managers out there who work that way, but it’s not me, and not the way that my Mindset colleagues work either.

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Sam Stosur used hers to win the US Open. What are you going to use yours to do?

As news reports poured in that Samantha Stosur had beaten US powerhouse and 27-time Grand Slam winner, Serena Williams, and won the first Grand Slam title by an Australian woman in 31 years, I was struck by how much her victory was (as with most sport) more a win of Mindset than physical ability.

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