Able and How

Why assess readiness for change?         

Many successful organisations are handling big changes – restructures, cost cutting and efficiency drives, or expansions into new markets and territories.  The result is many more people saying ‘we need to get better at change’ but not much clarity as to what that really means.

After many years of working closely with Cass Business School and many of our clients, Able and How has created an assessment tool for how businesses can get better at change.

We have learned that change is too often an individual capability and one that is fleeting too.

The Able and How Change Index © assesses an organisation’s change capability. Building on academic work, we have researched and developed a unique diagnostic tool designed to gather evidence of change capability in a business.

Why use a diagnostic tool?

The Able and How Change Index provides quantitative data along eight change dimensions. These show change leaders and executives areas where an organisation has inherent strengths, as well as areas that need development.

The Able and How Change Index gives executive teams insight into how to improve an organisation’s change efforts. It identifies specific areas for improvement and helps to deconstruct the cloudy world of change.  The evidence-based data, gives organisations clarity and focus for change programmes.

When we invite senior executives to debate the broad themes around change and the benefits of the Able and How Change Index, they have highlighted the need for data, praised the commercial application of the research and emphasised the benefit of using a framework to analyse the process of change.

What the Able and How Change Index does

The Able and How Change Index is based on quantitative and qualitative research. It can be run on ‘live’ programmes, or those that have already been completed.

However, its greatest impact is when it is run across an organisation to look at programmes past and present.  It provides a unique organisational view.

The Able and How Change Index gives organisations information on macro trends as well as individual implementations.  

If you would like to know more, or think that your organisation should be involved in the on-going research into change, please contact Able and How.