Change: The final frontier

Trying to implement change without first securing the backing of your workforce is not only hard, it's pretty foolish. Matt Henkes looks at how learning to manage change properly can be vital for long term business survival.

In the far-off future, when our sun begins to die, humans will face a harsh choice: evolve or disappear. We can only hope that by that time, a couple of billion years down the line, our descendants will have honed their ability to manage such a change effectively.

For now, it's the survival of business that is dependent on change management. It's certainly not an alien concept, with plenty of brain power being devoted to the issue in boardrooms across the country. The problem is, change can fail for any one of a hundred reasons.