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Over the last few years of market shocks and geopolitical tensions, mid-market businesses have grown accustomed to bracing and planning for the unexpected.

Technology plays a large part in the personal and professional lives of the majority of people. Not only is it an enabler to everyday business-as-usual tasks, but for most, they could not effectively do their job without it. So, while implementation of a new system can be transformational for your organisation, without adequate buy-in from your people, it can be difficult to land a new system successfully. We highlight four key ways you can use people-led change to achieve and sustain a successful system implementation.

The quote ‘change is the only constant’ pre-dates Socrates, to the Greek Philosopher Heraclitus who said ‘you can never enter the same river twice’. This means, somewhere between 535BC and 475BC, we knew that change would be a challenge we would grapple with throughout the course of human existence. So why do organisations still find it so difficult to change?

Now vaccines are coming on stream and there looks to be light at the end of the tunnel we seem to be faced with a different issue, how do we continue to operate going forward post pandemic?

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At Grant Thornton, our change management specialists help our clients to understand the impact that change will have on their organisation, completing change impact assessments to clearly establish and document who will be affected by the change and the degree to which they will be impacted.