If you want to transform your organization, what do you feel will prohibit that change?
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If you want to transform your organization, what do you feel will prohibit that change?
Tags: change, organization, prohibit, transform
April 29, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Change requires three things.
1st there has to be a dissatisfaction with the status quo. Too often we begin to champion change in an organization, without really evaluating the satisfaction level of the stakeholders. Or alternatively there is a predominant delusion of satisfaction that is difficult to overcome, again requiring a careful evaluation of stakeholders.
2nd there has to be a clear vision for the future change. No one is criticized for a bad vision, only for not having one. Especially when approaching cost management, we have to have a long term vision for how we are going to create an environment of accountability to control costs.
3rd There has to be a roadmap or plan. Change doesn’t happen overnight and there has to be a plan to navigate the pitfalls over a longer period of time. At least with a clear vision and a road map an organization can avoid making wrong turns or detours from accomplishing the needed change.
April 30, 2008 at 2:49 pm
A quote from a recent Business Objects report states “Until six weeks ago, I would have said what kept me up at night was interacting with our external auditors to get compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley,” said a finance executive at a food-service conglomerate earlier this year. He calls the Sarbanes-Oxley work a “nightmare.”
Is this compliance/controller role the chief competitor in finacnce that distracts it from strategy and moving it beyond transparency?