{"id":2557,"date":"2019-04-07T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clapat-themes.com\/wordpress\/ernest\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2025-12-05T20:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T20:24:14","slug":"resisting-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativescrum.nl\/?p=2557","title":{"rendered":"Why do organisations resist change?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"524\" src=\"https:\/\/creativescrum.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/adrian-rosco-stef-QStuyKK04bY-unsplash-1-1024x524.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/creativescrum.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/adrian-rosco-stef-QStuyKK04bY-unsplash-1-1024x524.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/creativescrum.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/adrian-rosco-stef-QStuyKK04bY-unsplash-1-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/creativescrum.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/adrian-rosco-stef-QStuyKK04bY-unsplash-1-768x393.jpg 768w, https:\/\/creativescrum.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/adrian-rosco-stef-QStuyKK04bY-unsplash-1-1536x786.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/creativescrum.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/adrian-rosco-stef-QStuyKK04bY-unsplash-1-2048x1048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">I visited the local Blokker store, last week. I stumbled at the threshold. Something was different. The layout of the store, the store furniture. It had all changed. Of course, I had heard of the \u201cchange\u201d at Blokker and had been anticipating it, but that caravan had not arrived at \u201cmy Blokker\u201d yet; and given the news lately, I didn\u2019t expect it to arrive at all. Excitedly, I entered the store. I bought the thing I needed and left, thinking: \u201cWow, Seriously?! Did they really think that a layout and furniture change would solve their problems?\u201d. I feel much more is needed to \u201csave\u201d Blokker. Seeing how they adapted to the changing environment (the layout-and-furniture-change), made me wonder whether Blokker, this 123-year-old retail chain, has the capacity to adapt? Are they able to adjust both the business and their strategic focus? From what I have seen so far at the \u201cnew\u201d store, I fear not. Cosmetic change is temporary change; superficial change. And not enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#00000000\">Solving today&#8217;s problems with yesterday&#8217;s solution will get you no where.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#00000000\">Dr\u00fccker<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph\">Inertia comes to mind, since&nbsp;often problems regarding strategic adaptation stem from inertia. Inertia, a term hardly used, but omnipresent in many industries, nowadays.&nbsp;Inertia is paralysation occurring as a consequence of accelerating change, leading to non-response or responding too late or inadequately. Inertia has many faces as the sources of inertia can differ per industry or type of organization. There is&nbsp;structural inertia, which occurs when an organization has lost its flexibility due to the structures and systems it has put in place over time, which makes change difficult, costly and lengthy.&nbsp;Corporate inertia<em> <\/em>is the phenomenon whereby an organization gets stuck in its ways of thinking and behaviour and thereby chooses the beaten path because of commitments made in the past. Such commitments are management\u2019s actions that contribute to an organization being pinned down on certain behaviour in the future, which tend to have a lock-in effect, forcing an organization, both rationally and emotionally, to persevere in the chosen path.&nbsp;Active inertia is the case when an organization accelerates on activities that succeeded in the past. There are more forms, but these three touch upon the Blokker issue. What links them is the fact&nbsp;that in all instances it has to do with how management views the business. What is unsettling with inertia is the fact that although it might seem the organization is moving, it is not. It is in fact immobile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-6 is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" style=\"background-color:#01a7d2\">\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-7 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#01a7d2\">Tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-8 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#01a7d2\">African proverb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-9 wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"ember2788\" style=\"background-color:#00000000\">So, how do you get things moving? Enters: Creative Scrum. Creative Scrum are a group of changemakers who will help your organisation remove the blockades. They are a new breed of creative leaders who view themselves as context setters and designers of learning experiences for organisations. Creative leaders who are able to redefine industry boundaries and rethink business models. Leaders who get your organisation moving by asking the right questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-10 wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"ember2789\" style=\"background-color:#00000000\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#00000000\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#00000000\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#00000000\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I visited the local Blokker store, last week. I stumbled at the threshold. Something was different. The layout of the store, the store furniture. It had all changed. 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