Change management graduates to the boardroom

A new survey by Booz & Company of more than 350 senior executives who have led major transformation initiatives at large organizations around the globe — those with over 5,000 employees — has confirmed that change management has come of age. Executives now understand the need for clear, credible, and carefully integrated people initiatives in business transformation programs and prioritize these people initiatives more highly than they have in the past. Change management now ranks as a boardroom agenda item. No matter the change, change management matters The aim of change management is ensuring people are both willing and able to adopt necessary new behaviors and skills, while letting go of those no longer relevant. While they may have previously overlooked or dismissed the people side of business change as quirky or soft, senior executives now truly understand the importance of change management. They recognize that no transformation gains traction