Making change as invisible as possible to people

Modern practices for non-intrusive organizational change management.

In this article, I want to present a number of ideas that help to look at organizational change from a different perspective. The perspective that organizations can prepare themselves for constant change from within, by incorporating the process of change into everything they do on a daily basis. By stopping intrusive change management and making change as invisible as possible to people. Invisible change.

A sunny Friday morning at the end of July.

Bruce drags the last table to a room of sixty square meters in the Solvay office in Paris. Only a month before he received the final go for building this brand new internal Design Studio. Together with his partner in crime from IT, Frederick, he had worked hard to make this happen. The budget was limited, but Bruce’s conviction that this was what Solvay needed, was exponentially bigger.

When he started working at Solvay two years before, building a design studio was not part of his job description. It was not what he had in mind from the start either, it was an idea that emerged from one of the projects he was hired for: finding a good tool for Solvay’s HRIS (Human Resources Information System). The…