Change Blueprint

The Change Blueprint

The Change Blueprint contains five key themes that contribute to a successful change initiative.  These themes are applied across five time-based phases from initial diagnosis through to sustaining and embedding the change.

Complexity Assessment

The Change Blueprint will become the way in which we manage all change across the University.  All the steps and themes are applicable to small as well as large scale change and the approach is scalable to suit local and organisation-wide change initiatives.

The first step in understanding how best to apply the change framework is to undertake a Complexity Assessment for your change initiative.

The level of change management effort depends on the following dimensions:

  • Breadth – the organisational scale of the change
  • Depth – the scope of the change in terms of the way people work
  • Impact – how radical the change is
  • Criticality – how important the change is
  Breadth Depth Impact Critically
Transactional Change restricted to one or two teams or disciplines Involves limited changes to the way people will work Some impact to processes and tool but not organisation or culture Driven by an internal need to change
Operational Change across departments or colleges Involves some change to responsibilities, knowledge and technology Impacts processes and technology and some organisation but very little culture Driven by internal need to change and impacts core functions and enables strategy
Transformational Large, complex change across the University New and demanding ways of working will be required for the change to happen Impacts processes, technology, organisation and even culture Driven by an external need to change, impacts core functions and drives the realisation of corporate strategies

Complexity Assessment - tailored toolkit

The assessment of whether your change initiative is Transactional, Operational or Transformational can be supported by a Complexity Assessment‌ tool. Once you are clear about the complexity of the change initiative you can use the following table to determine which elements of the Change Framework are most relevant:

 

Change Blueprint Plan