Creative Interchange Institute, Inc. - Heart and Soul of Change

CREATIVE
INTERCHANGE
INSTITUTE, Inc.
892 South Plum Grove Road
Suite 104
Palatine, Illinois 60067
phone +1.847.358.2100
email info@ciinstitute.com

Heart and Soul of Organizational Change

"An organization's speed of change depends largely on how efficiently and effectively it advances through the four stages of synergy*." -- Daryl Conner, President ODR, Inc., author of Managing at The Speed of Change

As change practitioners and researchers, we believe the synergy process Conner describes is indeed the required underpinning for successful change in human systems. On an intellectual level, leaders and stakeholders in organizational change efforts agree that synergy is desirable--even critical--to success. Yet, they often struggle to actually achieve it. We help organizations to recognize the barriers inherent in their current situation, and to structure their environment to allow the synergistic process to enable change.

*The early framework for viewing synergy as a four-step process was developed by Dr. Henry Nelson Wieman in Man's Ultimate Commitment, re-published by The Foundation for Philosophy and Creativity, 1990. Wieman called the process--creative interchange.

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INCREASES RESILIENCE DURING CHANGE...

"Synergy is also a mechanism that fosters creativity, empowerment, and participation, but that is secondary to the primary business reason it is applied in most situations. The face value of synergy for most managers is that it produces more output with fewer resources, thus increasing an organization's overall resilience during change."

-- Daryl Conner, Managing at the Speed of Change.