SERVICES - CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Designing for the future is a better bet than designing for now
Invariably, new strategies involve a process of change which must be handled at the right pace and carefully considered. The best performing businesses must be aligned and adaptable to changing circumstances and market forces. We work with our clients to achieve the benefits of change – whether driven through extraordinary growth opportunities, market alignment, investor, merger, acquisition or down-sizing.

There are a multitude of concepts on Change Management and it is virtually impossible to distil a common denominator from all the sources that are applying the phrase to their mental maps of organisational development. However, there is a tight connection with the concept of learning. Only if organisations and the individuals within them learn, will they be able to master a positive change.

Change is the result from an organisational learning process that centres around the issue of how (and whether at all) change can be "managed" and facilitated.

In essence, change takes place on three levels:

• The self,
• the team
• The organization.

We use a process where learning needs to be facilitated on all three levels to become sustainable, based on known facts that change management starts and ends with individuals.

When we assist you to introduce change into a system we do a thorough assessment of what skills, behaviours and belief systems will need to be part of the change effort.

Assessing all the elements of an organisation and its operating environment and acting to bring them into alignment has given our clients outstanding results, allowing them to continuously perform well.

Most projects are too complex to be implemented by one person, most services need different specialists and support staff to be delivered, and most products are the result of the work of a larger resources team.

Our company can provide teams that share the responsibility and the resources for getting things done.

Byrnes Freeman is an expert in performance driven change, human capital management, organisational design, communication and project plans. We have seen excellent results from these programmes and will be happy to discuss case studies with you upon request.

Our view is that there are clear linkages between strategy, organisational behaviour and the management of change – leadership has to be effective and Byrnes Freeman will help you to achieve this. During transition, our consultants are on hand to assess, manage and advise on the infrastructure and systems required for successful business transformation.