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Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation

Pearl Zhu

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There are many books written about changes, but very few dig into the mindset level. Change Management starts with a thought, with a flash of insight, insight is the act or result of understanding the inner nature of changes or of seeing things intuitively. It leads to a vision; then leads to a culture shift, strategic changes, or leadership transformation. It’s important to understand the big WHY about changes, no change is for its own sake, the first step is to define the value proposition and determine demand and estimated pipeline. Insight is thinking into the box after thinking out of the box. Thus, insight takes creativity and reasoning, intuition and logic, the power of acute observation and deduction, questioning, connection, penetration, and discernment. Change Insight is the understanding of a specific cause and effect in a specific change context. Change Insight is being able to identify the root cause of a problem or the core issues of a situation, which leads to understanding and resolution about changes. Change has different scopes and effects, from small changes such as software updating, business process tuning; to radical changes such as culture innovation, or big-bang changes such as radical digital transformation. Often change is an “un” nature activity, you need to focus, also, make an effort to sustain it. So the newly established behaviors or the new way to work will be in harmony with the well-defined value propositions so that change can maintain its momentum. Too often, people take the easy path, think and work at a superficial level rather than spending the time to understand what’s going on underneath. Insight is the understanding of cause and effect, based on the identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario in Change Management.

Change Management is always challenging with a high percentage of failure rate. Indeed, change is difficult. Some say, change is not a problem, the primary reason for change failure is resistance to change while the secondary reason is the inability of leaders to deal with resistance. The purpose of the book “Change Insight” is

-Dig deeper to analyze the psychology behind changes and handle problems and changes at the level of the mindset.
-Explore people-centric change management philosophy and practices.
-Differentiate change leadership and change management, orchestrate change at all level of the organization.
-Set Change Management principles to inform and support the way of managing change effectively.
-Build change as an ongoing capability, not just a one-time business initiative.
-Analyze the potential change pitfalls and roadblocks on the change journey.
-Make objective change assessment and measurement from multidimensional lens.
-And ultimately build high-mature organizations with changeability to fuel the digital transformation.

274 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 6, 2016

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Pearl Zhu

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Pearl Zhu has more than 25 years of technical and business working experience in Information Technology, E-commerce, international trading, etc. My blog has reached #10000 blog posting with 100,000,000 views wordwidely.

She is a digital visionary who can capture technological foresight, business insight, and digital leadership philosophy from multidimensional lenses and global perspectives. She also is a forward-looking digital leader who advocates business innovation and culture evolution relentlessly.

She is the author of "Digital Master" book series (28+ books), which include: "Digital Master –Debunk the Myth of Enterprise Digital Maturity," "CIO Master – Unleash the Digital Potential of IT," "Digital Valley - Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence," "Digital Agility - The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile," "Leadership Master - Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity," "Talent Master -199+ Questions to See Talent from Different Angles," "Digitizing Boardroom - The Multidimensional Aspects of Digital Ready Boards," "Thinkingaire - 100 Game-Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future," "Change Insight -Change as Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation," "IT Innovation -Running IT for the Digital Age," "Unpuzzling Innovation - Mastering Innovation in a Structural Way," "100 Creativity Ingredients -Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity," "Decision Master -The Art and Science of Decision-Making," "Digital Gaps -Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business," "Digital IT - 100 Q&As," "Digital Capability - Building Lego-Like Capability Into Business Competency," and "Performance Master - Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance," and "Digital Boardroom- 100 Q&As," "Digital FIt: Manifest Future of Business with Multidimensional Fit," "100 Digital Rules," and "12 Digital Personas," "Problem-Solving Master: Frame Problems Systematically, Solve Problems Creatively," "Digital Maturity: Taking a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioining to Delight," "Digital Pitfalls: How to Overcome Pitfalls on the way to Going Digital," "Digital Hybridity: How to Strike the RIght Balance for Digital Paradigm Shift," and received very positive feedback.

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