For organisations which skilfully manage change, it can become the driving force that perpetuates success and growth, with every change presenting a new opportunity to improve business performance. A change management plan is therefore essential. Scope Corporate executives cannot be change leaders until they have committed to change themselves. For too long, many senior executives have ignored their role of leader in favour of one as manager. Instead of creating vision and direction for the organisation, they have sought to manage every step made in the business and, in so doing, have often lost sight of the vision in favour of short-term financial results.
Nothing is more important for a business today than for executives to think about tomorrow.
The majority of change programmes are driven by external stimuli, i.e. the marketplace and the competitive environment. This means that individuals within the organisation must change, as well as the organisation itself. The size of the gap between the desired future and current states argues for the compelling need to change. In short, the pain of remaining in the current state has to be worse than the pain involved in trying to implement change. Benchmarking enables the promotion of a compelling need to change.