Before revision: Typically organizations go through several stages in transforming themselves:Harvard Business Review January 2007 Kotter recognizing the need to change and gaining consensus amongst stakeholders that change is necessary agreeing what form the change should take, the objectives of the change and a vision that describes a better future understanding what the organization is changing from and what needs to change in detail designing the new organizational way of working and its support and management testing and implementing changes, usually in waves (this may take place over a number of years) bedding in the change so that the organization cannot move back to how it was and achieves the intended benefits .
After revision: Typically organizations go through several stages in transforming themselves:Harvard Business Review January 2007 Kotter Recognizing the need to change and gaining consensus amongst stakeholders that change is necessary Agreeing what form the change should take, the objectives of the change and a vision that describes a better future Understanding what the organization is changing from and what needs to change in detail Designing the new organizational way of working and its support and management Testing and implementing changes, usually in waves (this may take place over a number of years) Bedding in the change so that the organization cannot move back to how it was and achieves the intended benefits