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Driving and Achieving Change

Practical Guidance from Practical People

Wednesday, February 24, 2010Driving & Achieving Change1PanelistsBill Kasdorf, Vice PresidentApex Content [email protected] Lubeck, Executive Director, Book Industry Study [email protected] McMahon, President & PublisherKaplan [email protected]: Allison Belan, Assistant Production ManagerDuke University Press, [email protected]/24/20102Driving & Achieving Change: Practical Guidance from Practical PeopleO'Reilly Tools of Change 2010Preparing the Landscape2/24/2010Driving & Achieving Change: Practical Guidance from Practical People O'Reilly Tools of Change 20103Model for Change Projects2/24/2010Driving & Achieving Change: Practical Guidance from Practical People O'Reilly Tools of Change 201044Next Steps2/24/2010Driving & Achieving Change: Practical Guidance from Practical People O'Reilly Tools of Change 20105Judge success of project. Dont let investment to date cause you to institutionalize a failure.Keep a skunk works alive. Start the next pilot.Use your results to demonstrate feasibility, worthiness of investment. Win friends and influence people.2/24/2010Driving & Achieving Change: Practical Guidance from Practical People O'Reilly Tools of Change 20106Bridgedont breakthe organizationProtect the larger org from the messiness of experimentingMake the CEOs buy-in highly visibleFocus on the What, not the HowBe specific about success measuresPrepare to change the goalListen to the naysayersIts a betadont get too ambitiousBreak it into manageable chunksLook past your superstarsInnovators may be anywhere in the ranksCreate a virtual advisory boardDont let fear narrow the possibilitiesBe clear on: ownership, dates, milestones, responsibilitiesBuild in frequent show-and-tellDo not waste failuresReward failures! Assess results in stages6Resources2/24/2010Driving & Achieving Change: Practical Guidance from Practical People O'Reilly Tools of Change 20107The Myths of Innovation, Scott Berkun (OReilly, 2007)www.scottberkun.com: Blog posts, essaysOpen Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape, Henry Chesbrough (Harvard Business Press, 2006)10 Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution, Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble (Harvard Business Press, 2005)Transforming Strategy One Customer at a Time, Richard J. Harrington and Anthony K. Tjan (Harvard Business Review, March 2008)The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual, Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger (Basic Books, 2001)World Class Teams: Working Across Borders, Lynda C McDermott, Nolan Brawley, and William W. Waite (Wiley, 1998)