Evolutionary over revolutionary change
Description
Revolutionary change has a high risk of failure, therefore change should be evolutionary.
Rationale
Revolutionary change, where a significant change is made in a transactional fashion, has a far higher risk of failure than multiple small incremental changes. An evolutionary approach to change introduction is recommended, with the following considerations:
- Ensure those impacted by a change are part of the change process as opposed to having the changes done to them.
- Understand and start from the current context of your organisation and system of work.
- Use the Scaling Principles as a "Lens" to assess and understand potential opportunities for improvement.
- Create change hypotheses for the high-priority opportunities.
- Introduce and support a small number of experiments that can be run and evaluated independently.
- Use volunteers in the experiments where possible.
- Apply learnings back into the experiments.
- Broaden adoption when proven and where applicable.