Rapid Results!: How 100-Day Projects Build the Capacity for Large-Scale Change shows how to implement huge organizational changes in small steps, as 100-day projects.

In today's global business environment, organizations need to initiate, manage and complete many changes in their structure and functioning. This might involve restructuring, adopting new methodologies in operations, managing mergers and takeovers or implementing huge IT projects.

All these involve many complex processes and translate into many changes that affect a large number of people in the organization. Traditional methods of laying the groundwork for changes, initiating all the processes and then waiting for the effects, are too complex and often become too difficult to manage.

Rapid Results!: How 100-Day Projects Build the Capacity for Large-Scale Change presents a new approach to implementing organizational changes. This involves initiating 100-day projects. These are smaller steps and little changes that take effect immediately, but are small enough to manage efficiently.

The authors point out the difficulty of managing huge changes and getting people to understand and follow the new ways of doing things. This new approach breaks down a large change into smaller steps. Each stage can be implemented within 100 days. These smaller changes also offer another advantage.

The people involved can perceive and experience the benefits quickly and so they are more willing and motivated to adapt to the whole change. Motivating people and getting them to adapt to changes is one of the biggest challenges in initiating and managing huge projects.

Rapid Results!: How 100-Day Projects Build the Capacity for Large-Scale Change was published by John Wiley and Sons in 2005. This book is available in hardcover.

Key Features:

• The book explains strategies for achieving changes at the micro level. These, incrementally, would lead to big changes while making the process easy and less painful for the stakeholders.
• The authors have included real-life success stories of this method being used in organizations like Citigroup, Motorola, Fidelity Investments, Sprint, Siemens and the World Bank.