Change happens regularly in our personal and professional lives. Every organization faces change. New tools, strategies, and expectations are always being introduced. But no matter how well-intentioned a transformation is, it’s not the change itself that determines success — it’s how well you understand and manage its impact.
That’s where Rego Consulting’s Change and Impact Strategic Planning Innovation comes in. This groundbreaking approach helps leaders see the full picture of change — across every initiative, team, and timeline. It helps organizations not only manage change but manage its impact, ensuring transformation strengthens the business instead of overwhelming it.
Why Focusing on Change’s Impact Matters
“A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.”
— Simon Sinek
In most organizations, transformation often overlaps and collides. A new ERP system might need departmental reorganization combined with new processes. A major compliance project might require the use of new software. Each effort may be valuable on its own, but together they can stretch people too thin.
It’s About the People and Smaller, Achievable Changes
In Harvard Business Publishing’s survey, 45% of employees reported feeling stressed or burned out at least weekly. Gartner indicates that today’s typical organization has at least five major companywide changes with more changes expected. Yet half of change initiatives fail, and only 34% are a clear success.
Why? Psychology Today suggests that breaking down changes into smaller, achievable goals enables people to alter routines. Small iterative changes are easier to accomplish. In addition, if one change is conquered, people believe the next one will be, too.
The first step is knowing what those smaller chunks might be. Rego’s innovation helps you break down changes and understand how each of them impacts teams. Our Rego guides also provide assistance to breakdown initiatives into more manageable chunks.
Building Blocks to Better Project Management and Leadership
The timing and the scale of change as well as how it affects teams can be determined and planned is essential before you can start to manage that change. By knowing who is affected and what it means, you’re answering key information – what’s in it for me (WIFFM) — that employees need to know to buy in.
Plus, understanding fully the change and its impact enables the organization to better prioritize initiatives, staff projects, train employees for their new work, understand productivity goals (given changes), etc.
Knowing the impact of changes is key to managing a project successfully. It’s also necessary to lead an organization.
Solution: Change Controlled
Rego brings together all organizational initiatives into a single, comprehensive view. Instead of managing each change in isolation, leaders can see them as a connected ecosystem — a living roadmap that shows exactly when and where each initiative will land, and who will be affected.
How the Change and Impact Innovation Works
At its core, this innovation visualizes how initiatives intersect over time and their corresponding impacts, enabling leaders to zoom in to dissect changes and who’s affected as well as zoom out for a high-level roadmap of all organizational change. From there, leaders can build what-if scenarios — shifting timelines, exploring dependencies, and testing resource availability. They can instantly see when a particular month or team is overburdened and move things around before that overload happens.
Based on all this information, they can make better decisions about staffing and initiative priorities while keeping employees sane.
Who Benefits?
Although designed with leaders and PMOs in mind, this innovation has wide-reaching benefits across the organization. The departments and teams facing change are the real winners. But those groups often leading change, staffing for it, or supporting change will benefit, too.
Risks without Our Innovation
There are a bunch of risks that you’re probably already experiencing, the biggest one is about people. When employees are hit with too much, too fast, their productivity falters because they’re overloaded. Over time, that fatigue leads to disengagement, turnover, and declining customer satisfaction.
- Overload key teams, impacting other work and harming employees’ wellbeing.
- Prevent teams from delivering necessary goals that affect your bottom line.
- Experience delays, rework, missed goals, and failed initiatives.
- Lose trust in leadership and impact your culture.
Rego’s Change and Impact Innovation stops that cycle by introducing structure, foresight, and balance.
Is It Right for Your Organization?
Ask yourself these questions to determine if this innovation is right for your organization. The more “yes” you answer, the more your organization can benefit from Rego’s innovation.
Don’t Let Change Control You
Okay, change is inevitable. You’ve already invested time, money, and energy into driving transformation. The last thing you want is to sabotage those efforts because impact wasn’t taken into account.
With Rego, you gain the clarity to see all changes, the control to shape its timing, and the confidence to move forward with a plan for your employees to accomplish that change. Your teams will appreciate manageable workloads. Initiatives will be more successful. Your leaders will be pleased initiatives are done with more strategic planning in mind.
About the Author: Rego Consulting
