Change is no longer a breeze to adjust to—it’s a tidal wave, building higher and moving faster with every passing year. With AI and other emerging technologies accelerating the current, nothing is slowing down. Soon, organisations will launch programs to build change resilience the same way they once ran safety training or compliance workshops. Words like change fatigue and change resistance may soon vanish, because clinging to them will only carry a direct consequence: irrelevance.
To navigate through this constant surge, leaders must invest in Change Management departments—standing shoulder to shoulder with Finance, IT, and Procurement. Their role will be to develop the competencies, processes, and procedures that allow organisations to ride the waves of transformation instead of being pulled under by them.
Change Management is shifting from being a project-based competency to becoming a business-as-usual discipline—the organisational surfboard for the endless waves of change.
