Change Management

90% of enterprises have undertaken a major change, affecting at least half of their over-all organization in the last two years. Yet, only 5% have been free from unexpected problems or time overruns. "Even Change is Changing: Now it's Organizational Angst" July 27, 2001. Gartner Research document AV-14-0470.

Industry leaders understand that great change can be the catalyst for great opportunity.

Yet, many executives simply decree change. Or they go a little further, assembling a project team, which promptly shutters itself for months to plan new systems that never get off the ground.

Why do these initiatives fail? One reason is that managing change is unlike any other managerial task performed by many executives. It can't be done on a piecemeal basis. Instead, it must be coordinated and carefully balanced among and within all parts of an organization to be effective.

Another key reason is that leadership often fails to grasp the importance of the people component of change. It takes time for employees to hear, understand, and believe a new message. It takes skill to package that message in a palatable manner and ensure adoption of change throughout all of the activities, policies, and behaviors of the organization. Buy in is crucial. Without it, management's change initiatives are guaranteed to fail.

What Forte Financial can do for you

• Change management from a proactive rather than a reactive stance. Forte Financial change managers draw from disciplines as diverse as psychology, sociology, business administration, economics, industrial engineering, and the study of human and organizational behavior to spearhead major change initiatives with as little pain as possible.

• A comprehensive, holistic approach to managing change. Working from the concept that managing change means managing the entire dynamic of an organization, our change managers are experienced at connecting and balancing all the pieces of a change effort. They know that change is a process with its own set of models, methods, techniques, and tools that takes into account the organization as a whole.

• An objective perspective from outside your organization, drawing upon the collective experience of our team. Trusted advice from an outside party is invaluable during times of change.