The New World of Work? We’re not so sure…
There has been a lot of hype in the media since the start of the pandemic about a "new normal" for work or the "new ways of work" that will be permanently embedded in our organisations and that employee engagement and productivity will be maintained. We have heard...
Corporate wellness in the context of change
Successful organizations in today’s business environment understand that supporting the emotional and mental wellness of employees makes good business sense. This is particularly important in the context of a large-scale organisational transformation or change...
Culture, mergers and acquisitions
Academic research illustrates that half of all merger and acquisition (M&A) activities have failed to create lasting shareholder value. Studies on post-merger stock performance reveal that since 1990, in the two years after their deals closed, nearly 50 percent of...
Coaching for Performance
CCG is very proud of the work done by our partner company, CCG Africa, and we are pleased to announce the launch of their latest and updated version of the Coaching for Performance workshop. This extraordinary product is now in its 12th year of delivery and continues...
Questions about change implementation
Dear friends and colleagues We are often asked ad hoc questions about change and strategy implementation, and we either cannot answer these in full, or our answers are not documented for the benefit of others. So we have decided to start a new programme on our blog...
The Complexity of Contracting
Have you ever entered into consulting work without a contract? CCG stresses the importance of the contracting phase in any consulting engagement. This is important for three reasons: It helps to establish a relationship between the two parties; The experience provides...
Industrial Relations Conference Cape Town
We are proud to announce that Stephen Rothgiesser, Practice Lead: CCG Advisory is speaking on Stakeholder Management and Partnership Facilitation in the Context of a Complex South African Labour Environment at the Knowledge Resources Industrial Relations Conference in...
New CCG Learn Presentations!
CCG Learn is proud to announce the addition of three new presentations to our learning portfolio. These have been offered as bespoke solutions for CCG clients previously (either as keynote presentations or internal learning experiences) and we have reworked the...
Doing Strategy Well in the Context of Change
Recently CCG gave a keynote presentation to a group of senior executives who are struggling with the appropriate response to strategy implementation in their organisation. We were struck by the importance of three key change concepts that delegates repeatedly asked...
A Theory of Change and Strategy Implementation
In last week's newsfeed, we proposed that a more sophisticated understanding of the strategy process was to separate strategy formulation from strategy implementation. In order to provide some initial thoughts and theory in this regard, we would like to share the...
The Change Review: McKinsey Interview and strategy implementation
A key purpose of this newsfeed is to stimulate discussion and debate around some of the challenges associated with change and strategy implementation. Part of this process is about sharing our experiences and areas of concern with our listeners, and part of this...
Building internal change capability within organisations is HARD!
In last week's blog, we promised to dive into more detail on why building internal change competence is so difficult, and, more to the point, why internal change agents often have such a challenging task. Building internal change capability is hard because: Good...
Change is Everywhere!!!
We have noticed a significant increase in the interest in strategic change initiatives and the desire of clients to more deeply understand how they might do change better within their organisations and upskill line and support management with change awareness and...
Successful Strategy Implementation
For over a decade, CCG has been driven to understand why up to 70% of change initiatives either fail entirely, or fail to deliver on their intended ROI (John Kotter, 1995; McKinsey & Company, 2006). We believe that there are three factors (Leadership, Programme...
Show me the Money!
We noticed a growing trend by clients in the past four or five years to push back hard on consulting fees. We understand that most corporate clients are still fighting their way out of the financial crisis. The fact remains that negotiating a fair contract is...
Welcome to our new Website!
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We are incredibly excited to launch our new website! There are a number of reasons for this: 1. We have grown exponentially over the past 5 years and needed a more comprehensive portal to describe our offering and experience. 2. We...
Relationships that Work
Andy Phillips raised a very important point in a comment to our previous blog entry "Change Doesn't Work!!!". We really value Andy taking the time to respond and the valuable professional point that he raised, and promised to respond in our next blog post. CCG is...
Change Doesn’t Work!!!
As we have blogged before, CCG is fascinated with why such a high percentage of change interventions fail. We believe there are two main reasons for this: 1. Clients don’t understand the complexity of introducing new strategy into their businesses, particularly large...
Of Titles and Protocols
A skilled consultant can learn a great deal from the first interaction with a (potential) client. Sometimes subtle (and not so subtle!) signals* from a client can be very useful in building an understanding of the client system** and help to inform whether or...
“Change Management” a Misnomer!
At CCG we believe that the term "change management" is a misnomer. As change and strategy consultants our assignment is to advise a client in identifying and engaging with complexity in their organization. Change invariably arises as the result of seeking to...
Passion for complex organisational change
For many years we have been fascinated with the fact that 70% of change initiatives either fail in total or fail to deliver the ROI expected (however that might be calibrated). CCG is the culmination of 23 years of work in the change space and this blog is our...