Leading Edge Group

The challenge of today’s turbulent economic climate has led many organizations to review how they can effectively reduce costs whilst still maintaining the highest standards of delivery, quality and safety.  Some organizations are facing critical crisis points whereas others see the climate as an opportunity to improve and become more cost effective.  At the Leading Edge Group we have developed a structured deployment model which you can use to develop and achieve your goals.

The Legacy model is a Leading Edge Group model which can be applied when carrying out a Change Initiative (CI) within an organization.  The model has been designed to be flexible for use across a multitude of industries and services.  The five steps in the model are purposefully designed to be as jargon free as possible, thus making each step clear and easy to follow – this is critical for communicating the model throughout the organization.

The model also takes into account the three key elements that are required to be addressed in order to achieve a successful CI program:

1. People – ensuring that staff are engaged in the process
2. Process – putting the right structures in place to support the activities
3. Tools – giving people the right tools and expert support / coaching when using the tools

The model has also been designed as a repeatable process.  Therefore it can be applied in either a one-off project (where time is short and fast results are critical) or can be an iterative process to build a strategic change initiative program in an organization to provide long-term success.

The Legacy model has been developed through many years experience of implementing change initiative programs throughout multiple industries.  The inspiration for the model comes from the many people who have been involved in the change initiative programs with the Leading Edge Group throughout the years.  Those involved in developing change initiative strategies within sites will recognize immediately the frustration and confusion that can occur at strategy kick-off meetings as each key stakeholder tries to understand the new techniques and strategies being put in front of them for their organization.  This model aims to make that process as simple as possible.

The Legacy model has captured the key elements of both the PDCA cycle and Kotter’s eight steps to creating major change in the five step Legacy model iterative cycle.  The other aspect of how the Legacy model differentiates itself from these two models is the explicit recognition of people, process and tools as the three key elements for sustaining a change initiative.  The relationship between each of these two aspects will be explained next.

The model commences through the five steps which are:

1. Assess areas for improvement
2. Create plan and vision
3. Launch Pilot
4. Monitor / Control / Adjust / Support
5. Communicate / Recognize success

Upon completion of the five steps, the initial roadmap has been completed and the opportunity is available to expand the program further to other areas if so desired.  This process would be recommended where an organization is looking to develop a long term strategy for change.