Integrating Planned & Emergent Change

In much of the recent debate regarding planned and emergent change, it is presented as a dichotomy, an either/or proposition. What if there was room for both, together, in this debate? Planned and emergent change have been discussed in a previous post. Briefly, planned change focuses on improving the effectiveness of an organization’s human side […]
A Primer on CAS and Emergent, Complexity-Driven Change

If you’re fairly new to change management, you may not have learned much about Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) in your initial training. And while the concept is hardly a new one, a relatively simple framework for understanding and applying CAS in change has been largely absent. And yet, as organizations today face an unprecedented pace […]