Projects: Types

Most things fail because change is tough. What makes it tough is that the world is complex. Everything is increasingly connected to everything else, and as a consequence, when we change one aspect of a system we can very easily create an un-intended impact on another part. Most things fail because the strategies, tools and processes we apply to them are not capable of dealing with complexity. Keep It Simple, Stupid we are told. Quite possibly the most damaging statement in the history of human endeavour. ChangeWeaver is about embracing complexity and making it work for us. It is the result of a 16year, 3-million data-point study of technical, business, social, political and ecological change aimed at uncovering the DNA of change success.

ChangeWeaver starts from the idea that there are massive amounts of useful knowledge in the world (you have lots of it in your organisation), but it usually gets applied to the wrong problems at the wrong time and for the wrong reasons. Unless the context of your business matches the capabilities of the tools you apply, your chances of success are little better than random.

ChangeWeaver recognises four key stages in the life of any enterprise, product, project or system:

START, SCALE, SWEAT and STOP. The context of each of the four is distinctly different and therefore demand distinctly different strategies. ChangeWeaver also recognises that change context shifts according to where in the organisation the improvement or breakthrough is needed.

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