{"id":19,"date":"2009-08-25T09:08:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T03:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2009-08-25T09:08:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T03:08:05","slug":"the-pace-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/25\/the-pace-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pace of Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Originally posted on <span>March 30th, 2007<\/span> by Pete<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>If you think ideas and change are happening more quickly than they used to, you are probably right. On the Conference Board\u2019s website is an article describing\u00a0how the rate of change is impacting the business of managing organizations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">\u201cIdeas are circulating faster,\u201d Clark says, \u201cwith the consequence that the lifespans of recent management fashions are considerably shorter than those for ideas which came to prominence in earlier periods; their peaks are much higher.\u201d Research confirms this. A recent academic study found that the period of time between the introduction of a fashionable management idea or technique and the peak in its popularity has fallen from a mean average of 14.8 years in the 1950s through the 1970s, to 7.5 years in the 1980s and to 2.6 years in the 1990s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0(For the entire article, click here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conference-board.org\/articles\/atb_article.cfm?id=346&amp;pg=4\">http:\/\/www.conference-board.org\/articles\/atb_article.cfm?id=346&amp;pg=4<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>This may mean that we are increasingly impatient for new approaches to deliver results, and when they don\u2019t (or if they take too long) we abandon the approach.\u00a0\u00a0But it may also mean that we have become so addicted to the new and novel that we are ready to jump on whatever the next bandwagon happens to be because we have to be the first in line.<\/p>\n<p>For management consultants, this can result in continuous morphing of your identity. \u201cTQM? Sure, we do that. I mean, Six Sigma? Yes, we have that.\u201d For businesses, it can mean wasting a lot of time and effort training people, creating powerpoint decks, re-positioning initiatives, changing labels on things, and so forth. But little benefit. Running a business requires more than just applying the latest idea. You have to really understand your market, your technology, your value proposition. It isn\u2019t often (ever?) simple.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted on March 30th, 2007 by Pete If you think ideas and change are happening more quickly than they used to, you are probably right. On the Conference Board\u2019s website is an article describing\u00a0how the rate of change is impacting the business of managing organizations.\u00a0 \u201cIdeas are circulating faster,\u201d Clark says, \u201cwith the consequence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends-and-fads"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7FCNy-j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}