Exact Change

The objective of ~ Strategic Change ~ is to strengthen and align an organization’s people, processes, and technology to create value … strategically, operationally, and financially

Our expectation is that you believe, perhaps passionately, that your organization must change, and change now. But while we believe you are convinced, we do not assume that everyone around you fully shares your vision.

Exact Change® provides a process and a framework to translate your vision and strategies into business success.

  • Change Architecture
  • Transformation Management
  • Leadership Development
  • Training
  • Organization Design
  • Value Realization

Impact42

Change is Strategic. Pushed forward by a speed of innovation and technological development unheard of since the 19th century, companies must change many aspects of their business – from strategy to after sales service – in order to compete andgrow in this market.

Most executives know this – and most have responded with change programs. Unfortunately, many of these programs do not meet their expectations. The walking wounded left by reengineering, techno l- ogy, and strategic change programs are too well chronicled.

Impact42 Priority Services

We have developed a world-class Strategic Change consulting capability. Our Priority Services are tar- geted to help executives convert strategy into business success.

Exact Change® is a framework which provides tools and processes for executing specialized change man- agement interventions throughout the implementation process, regardless of the change initiative.

Other Priority Services include:

Strategic Change is a Priority Service, and a framework, or process, which allows an organization to re- fine or define its business strategies, generate the supporting initiatives required to implement those strategies, commit resources against those initiatives, and define success parameters and initiative mile- stones.

Leading Change is a framework and tools for assessing and developing leadership capability at every level of your organization.

eMergent Change® provides the tools, framework and processes required to accelerate successful merg- ers, integrations and acquisitions.

Valuing Change® provides measurement tools and services specifically designed to link the attainment of bottom-line value to the progress of key strategies and initiatives.

Impact42 has assisted numerous clients successfully navigate the complex issues related to various change initiatives, allowing these organizations to achieve outstanding results.

When Does a Company Need Strategic Change Services?

In today’s fast changing, complex world, the concept of change management has often lost its meaning. The existence of so many easy answers or generalized frameworks have left executives complaining that even the best strategies and plans do not bring real results.

A successful change strategy is built upon investigation and analysis, a strong conceptual framework, pragmatic recommendations and a plan for implementation. It is in the creativity the practitioner employs in understanding the client’s particular strengths, and crafting a change plan around them that ultimately determines if changes lead to real business, operational, and financial improvements.

If you are leading any of the following, you are conducting a strategic change project. Are you:

  • Developing a formal business strategy or business plan, and do not feel existing strategies are sound, compelling or being executed throughout organization?
  • Entering into a new business or market and need research, objective analyses and/or sophisticated scenario analyses?
  • Significantly changing current business processes or practices?
  • Embarking on a strategic improvement initiative (e.g., eBusiness, supply chain, or reengineering) and leaders don’t understand, or are not aligned with the initiative?
  • Uncomfortable with the risk profile of your current change programs?

If you redesign processes, you must also redesign jobs and procedures, change the technologies that support these processes, train the people to perform new or different tasks, and remove barriers to change.

Exact Change Core Services

  • Change Architecture Design – A full service approach to managing project risks through organizational change. The goal of these activities is to minimize the disruption caused to the organization during the change process and position the organization to successfully achieve the future vision once the organization, process and system changes are imple- mented.
  • Transformation Management – An integrated set of tasks focusing on the people practices required to build commit- ment to a change program.
  • Training Design and Delivery – Comprehensive approach for the analysis of training requirements; the design and de- velopment of training programs.
  • Organizational Design – Focuses on developing organizational structures, aligning business processes, and executing work-redesign initiatives to create the management infrastructure to sustain competitive advantage and achieve stated business objectives.
  • Value Realization – A process to analyze the financial and non-financial drivers critical to the overall success of the or- ganization, then linking these drivers to a series of metrics, through a “cascading” series of transactional and opera- tional measures that support goal recognition and attainment at all levels of the organization.

Impact42’s Role?

We can help companies with their Strategic Change project in several ways:

  • Architect – we design and build an effective and comprehensive Strategic Change framework for the company
  • Advisor – we assist management with their Change Planning process and development of strategies and methods for managing change
  • Lead or Team Member – we act as additional resources to lead and conduct specific change programs or a full change process
  • Validator or Challenger – we validate or challenge existing plans, assumptions and change models to test their sound – ness and effectiveness

Benefits

  • Our services focus on translating business strategies and vision statements into a clear and simple set of target behav- iors to reduce the impact of change programs through enhanced leadership practices, communication programs, own- ership and performance management and training.
  • Integrating elements of organization design, performance management, and culture change, Impact42’s organization transformation service offerings assist you in structuring the organization and aligning your human resource capabili- ties to achieve business objectives.
  • Our change history assessment and change architecture design approach helps you synchronize the various elements of a change program to achieve business objectives, reduce risks associated with the change process, and identify the financial impacts.
  • Impact42’s training competency provides a comprehensive approach to determining knowledge and skill requirements, defining the appropriate delivery mechanisms, and creating the training materials to increase training efficacy. These programs decrease turnover and productivity loss by providing employees a reason to believe they will be successful in the new business environment.
  • Proven change accelerators allow faster project completion and better deployment of your resources while maintaining the focus of the project on its stated business objectives.