How can you help the organization evolve with you when launching an initiative or strategy?
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Involve the entire company from the beginning.
Address issues that may exist around internal efficiencies and effectiveness.
Build a powerful change leadership team.
And the most important; communicate, communicate, communicate.
1. It should be helpful to the organization since its design phase: align with the business goals, on 3 axes: grow the business (profit), run the business (cost) and transform the business. This should be done together with the business as the primary stakeholder.
2. Sell to the business the outcome, not the process.
3. "Culture eats strategy at breakfast" - Take care of people (as previously said by Geeta Pyne) and stakeholders (as previously said by Matt Stone). Users are some of the most important stakeholders. Usually they don't provide support but they might create destruction (rejection).
Socialise the initiative or strategy and get buy-in from the team - if they are not behind an initiative, you are destined to fail as worst, and at best struggle to get anything done.
The biggest keys are communication and change management.
An organization needs to know where it is headed: you can never over-communicate.
The other is a strong change management plan, which dovetails with communication through the organization.
Like many others here have commented, it's all about communication and education. There are change frameworks out there like ADKAR that more or less have this problem solved - if it is executed well. I think a healthy dose of pragmatism is worthwhile too. I have seen many initiatives and strategies fail because those leading it do not listen to the people involved who could have helped it to succeed