X4MIS Knowledge Base

What is Change Management

Why do organisations need Change Management?

Organisations are changing at an unprecedented rate, and the pace of change continues to accelerate. Bus...

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Capture the Stories Exercise

What is Capturing the Stories?

Capturing the story is about understanding and defining how things are done around here, what's happening now, and the...

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Why invest in change management?

 Transformations fail to realise their business benefits.  Not all transformation programmes fail, however many organisations suffer from a drop in

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Organisational Change & Culture
What is cultural change?

Cultural change is a term used by psychologist and executives to describe change at a societal or organisational level.  I...

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One page checklist

Organisations embarking on transformation programs often face challenges in managing change without a well-defined approach. Lack of a comprehensive

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Why Change Management

Organisations are continuously transforming, and Change Management is critical for every transformation.  Change Management helps to facilitate the

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Change Management? Yea Nah!

 This article is for an overview of change management that is not people change management.   The change management conversation is about impl...

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Who Manages Benefits?

I attended the Benefits Realisation Summit in Sydney earlier this week and the area of discussion I found most interesting was around the roles and ...

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People Process and Technology

The importance of People, Process and Technology - The Balance of Three

Many companies approach business issues using cutting-edge techno...

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How much change effort?

The effort required will vary dependent on the level of change and the transition from the current situation to the new business vision. This requir...

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Case Study - Network Management Centre

This is a case study from a transformation programme completed in the UK in 2005 by a senior X4MIS consultant.

The Business - The Network Manag

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Questions to ask

This article discusses the importance of asking questions during a change programmes Compose phase.  It considers why asking questions is important ...

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Complete a stakeholder analysis

 The stakeholder analysis is the systematic process of gathering detailed information about all the groups and individuals impacted by the change.  ...

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About the X4MIS Methodology

The X4MIS Methodology is based on the lessons learned from implementing change programmes across the globe. Based on decades of experience fro...

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Progress: Organisational Change in the right Direction

Change vs Progress: Alignment of change within organisations.

We recently read a blog post from Thought Leader Owen McCall titled Change vs Progres

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New X4MIS Content

The X4MIS Team have been busy.  The team at X4MIS is committed to providing free on-line change management content.  They have been working

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Five things your change consultant won’t tell you

I’ve worked in the change arena since 2005, and related people performance and HR disciplines for 14 years before that. I’ve engaged in a numb...

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Five roles change managers should not perform

I’ve noticed a number of Change Manager (CM) job postings recently listing tasks change managers do not perform. While CMs can multitask across other ...

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Welcome everyone to the first X4MIS newsletter.

You are included on this newsletter distribution because you have registered with X4MIS, contacted me directly about X4MIS, asked about my cur...

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Collaboration part one

Why a Collaborative Free Change Management Methodology Is Better: 

Part One – CONTRIBUTORS and Adopters

X4MIS® is an innov...

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Meet the new team

A team biography collated by Austin Watene.  Forward by Austin Watene:

We are so privileged to be helmed by our Director Bruce Swain, who was b...

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Naked Dancing Guy Seeks First Followers

I stole a line from “Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy” and added naked, as I was feeling a little vulnerable sharing this post 2 years ago....

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The revolution is here

The new and revitalised X4MIS website is up and running... Check it out and let me know what you think!  After years building the X4MIS website and ...

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