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We know that the focal point in project delivery nowadays is often to tick box the innovation scorecard, meeting timeframes, and budget of projects, and the rhetoric applied by leadership about transformation. Also, limiting change management to communication, people readiness, awareness and training, not aligning it with total organizational effectiveness.

If we remember that change management is not about activities that link to a specific project, and separated from organizational processes, systems, structures, roles, technology, and prevalent culture without systematic alignment, then we can move forward and build the culture shift towards digitization, equipping people to manage change within their own spaces.
Change management should no longer be something out there that someone else must drive but integral to how we do things.

Industry 4.0 is about consolidation and integration, thereby implying that digitization will affect all areas of business, pulling people, systems, processes, strategies, technologies, skills from different touch points , thus breaking silos and also being beneficial for increasing cross-functional collaboration.

The complexities and difficulties of delivering transformational change are well established, with failure rates frequently cited as high as 70%. The 2015 CIPD Landing Transformational Change Report indicated the key to low successes related to the emphasis on hard organizational aspects, such as structures and systems accompanied by communication and rhetoric, with inadequate attention on the softer cultural aspects of organizations.

Triggering your creative juices to prepare for 4.0 success We know that the focal point in project delivery nowadays is often to tick box the innovation scorecard, meeting timeframes, and budget of projects, and the rhetoric applied by leadership about transformation. Also, limiting change management to communication, people readiness, awareness and trainin