Change Management: notes

• Make sure to map out areas or people of influence who can bring about the change required.
• You can then strategise where best to target activity or resources, especially when you are resource limited. 
• You have to provide people with the capacity to bring about and handle change before it can happen (ARIES 2009)
• Critical thinking is key: use it to identify "the various elements of a change situation... reflecting of why things do and don't work and then using this deeper knowledge to build a path to your vision" (ARIES 2009)
• Need to not expect a linear path to change - have to think about change as more than a Gantt chart process.
• Change towards sustainabilty "needs to be more iteratice and reflective" and the process should be flexible and "potentially more opportunistic" (ARIES 2009) 
• Fit the tools to your situation or organisation, don't try and shoe horn in techniques (Hughes 2010)