COLLABORATIVE LOOPS
Create innovation and collaboration across multiple change efforts
Do you have many change projects going on simultaneously? Are they disconnected? Do they use different change management approaches? Are employees confused? Change projects are often disconnected and use differing change management approaches. This frequently leads to confusion on the part of employees and the organization.
Picture a change process where the steering teams from these disconnected projects work on their change strategies together. That’s the Collaborative Loops process. The Collaborative Loops processes brings together the steering teams from these disconnected change efforts in a workshop setting where they develop their change strategies together.
Imagine the multiplier effect when the teams discover how their change efforts affect each other. Soon teams get feedback from each other on how to improve their work. People leave with a better change strategy — and they build the connections that will make their work flow better from that point on.
Collaborative Loops Case Study: Spend Thousands, Not Millions
The Child Health Initiative team originally wanted to establish a central place where they could provide services such as immunization, vision and hearing testing, and counseling. To the team, this meant constructing a building that would cost millions of dollars. Their thinking changed based on feedback from other teams in their Collaborative Loops.
A mobile van that cost $150,000 could provide child health services. The van could take health services out into the community. The team let go of the building idea when feedback from other teams in their Collaborative Loops indicated the building would probably go unused most of the time. It would be difficult for parents to bring their children to a central place. With the help of the other teams in the room, the team developed the mobile van idea. Instead of spending millions, they spent thousands.
"Imagine the multiplier effect when the teams discover how their change efforts affect each other."