Getting the Most from This Book
This book is about a real-world approach to having us do things differently. Pragmatically and practically bringing change in us or those around us, a range of text, images, and videos are provided for the consistent and persistent application of proven principles and practices (www.amedli.biz). It is often best to just start and bring those around you on the journey, because any time is a good time to start with a real-world approach to having us do things differently.
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Helping the reader to bring empowered emotional ownership, be the change they wish to see, and to treat others as we ourselves would be treated. The intent of the book is to shape actions on what is required and how to go about bringing sustainable change. What an individual reader gets from this book is up to us as individuals and what we elect to do. Read as standalone sections, end-to-end, incrementally, or sequentially to develop an overall picture. Choose to read selected sections, in parts or entirety, and/or referenced back, as well as mixing and matching according to needs with the videos (www.amedli.biz). For ease of access and use, chapters include:
• Summary—A summary for prioritization of reading.
• Key learnings—As bullet points, key learnings from the chapter are also included.
• Next steps—Action items on how to implement the main points from the chapter.
Most of the chapters provide sections around the themes, how to set the example, what to do to make it happen, and then links to the supporting materials (often linking to supporting videos).
Beyond the direct business and management use of this book, the book can also be used to assist in the setting of policies, governance, and management of transitions and services across industry sectors as well as within government. Applicable on both the business and the technology sides, the book brings value within business management and operations, as well as skilling and training within business. Also suited for educational purposes, this book can also play a role within undergraduate and postgraduate teaching forming the basis for lectures, discussions, and practical projects. Example audiences include:
• Executive Level: From the role of leadership in organizational change management to the business impacts of technology at the board level, this book provides insights to make transformation real.
• Senior Management Level: To those faced with maintaining operations whilst making strategic and operational changes, the realities of achieving change and the forming of emergent behaviors are laid out.
• Technologist: From the ICT operations management to those who love to develop the technology, the realities of adoption and adaption around technology are explored.
• Business Operations Manager: For those faced with pragmatic adoption and integration, this book provides an approach for making it happen.
• Postgraduate Researcher: Opportunities and areas for research are hinted at throughout the book.
• Masters Student (Technology or Business or Both): This book provides a valuable teaching aid around achieving change as this is the environment in which they will live and work.
• Lecturer: For those teaching and preparing lectures, ample material is furnished that can be used alongside industry and course-specific teaching.
• Trainers: A range of course material is provided to those writing and providing training whether it is for operational change, technology adoption, or specific capacity and capability building.
• Management Consultants: The consultants advising businesses on transformation and the adoption of technology and for those implementing, the book provides valuable insights and guidance as well as how cloud-based knowledge worker services are changing the business model of the consultants.
• Accreditors and Certifiers: Use of the material within other offerings, or within modules, as part of accreditation and certification across a range of industries with focus on the professional skills.
Change is part of our lives and is about getting people to do things differently. Change the environment, instill the behaviors, to achieve the outcomes. It is the actions of empowered emotional individuals with ownership and pride in who they are and what they do that brings change. Change comes from the alignment of interests and values and having leadership that is the change they wish to see and treat others as they themselves would be treated. Change is about working with what you have, crafting and shaping the emergent behaviors, to get the best from people. Change takes time and comes from the consistent and persistent application of proven principles implemented pragmatically.
Whether you are a leader shaping the future, aspiring to make a better future, wishing to further an education, or just seeking to help the people around you, please enjoy the read and the videos (www.amedli.biz) as best suits and may the rewards come your way.