change management capability – ORCHANGO

TCHC: our side of the story

Editor — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 18:40:47 +0000

We are glad to be given an opportunity to tell our side of the story regarding ORCHANGO’s involvement with the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC). This past March, former TCHC CEO’s Kathy Milsom launched a legal action against TCHC. In May, the social housing provider filed a counterclaim against Milsom that also targeted ORCHANGO. Here is a PDF copy of our statement of defence and…

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Further update on our work with TCHC

Editor — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 15:49:32 +0000

We are aware of the findings of the Bennett Jones review of the procurement process surrounding the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) Request for Proposal for change management consulting services. We remain proud of our work for TCHC and what we had already achieved there in a short amount of time. We hope that TCHC continues this important work so that much-needed change is delivered…

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Our work at TCHC

Edmond Mellina — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 14:28:12 +0000

Edmond Mellina, ORCHANGO’s President & co-founder, talks about our recent work at Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC). ORCHANGO’s specialty is change management and we’ve been at it since 2002. It’s what we live and breathe, helping to build the change capabilities of public and private sector clients alike. We’ve achieved measurable results for clients across…

Powering on change management potential

Edmond Mellina — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 12:32:55 +0000

Model & case study to help build organizational change capacity… Edmond Mellina wrote this paper for Effective Executive, one of the flagship journals of IUP Publications (India). The theme of that particular issue was: “Powering on Potential”. Paper overview: An organization cannot grow if it remains unwilling to change. The capacity to absorb change is the fuel that propels an organization…

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Design thinking 2.0 – When innovators become change leaders

Edmond Mellina — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 02:46:14 +0000

Although design thinking traces its roots to the late sixties, the discipline entered the business world a mere decade ago. According to Tim Brown and Roger Martin, two respected thought leaders in the field, the time has come for design thinking to go to the next level. My take on it: it is all about the need for innovators to think like change leaders – whether they are working on super…

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When the business takes the lead & HR stops worrying about big data

Edmond Mellina — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 01:26:41 +0000

Premier US-based association HRPS (executive arm of SHRM) invited Edmond Mellina to contribute to its brand new blog on HR, people and strategy. McKinsey’s latest Capability Building Survey results provided the starting point for the blog post… This post also appeared on the blog of the Strategy Capability Network. —————— Last evening I came across a new article by global management…

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Stage 2 | BUILD UP: from barely moving to rapidly gaining altitude

Edmond Mellina — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:04:58 +0000

With this post, we are continuing our blog series on change management capability building. We will discuss the second stage of our 4-stage model (see figure) – Stage 2 | BUILD UP – which is characterized by a structured and focussed effort throughout the organization. It represents a critical step toward threading change management into the corporate culture. Before we dive into Stage 2…

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ORCHANGO president will speak at CSTD national conference

Editor — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 21:24:54 +0000

NEWS RELEASE | July 08, 2014 | Toronto, ON, Canada ORCHANGO, a firm with world-class expertise in change management that specializes in building the change capabilities of client organizations, is pleased to announce that its president will speak at the 2014 conference of the Canadian Society of Training & Development (CSTD). The theme of this year’s national conference will be: “CONNECT.

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Stage 1 | LAG BEHIND: struggling to execute strategic change

Edmond Mellina — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 01:52:41 +0000

In the first post of this series, we provided an overview of the 4-stage model we use at ORCHANGO to help client organizations develop their change management capabilities while executing strategic change (see figure; click on the image to enlarge it). We discussed how an organization’s CM-Score™ – a special metric generated from our CHECK UP!™ survey – evolves as it progresses from stage to stage.

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New blog series: building change management capabilities

Edmond Mellina — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 20:07:46 +0000

With this blog post, we are launching a series of articles about what it takes to build an organization’s change management capabilities. This first article provides an overview of the 4-stage model we have developed at ORCHANGO to help our clients thread change management into their organizational and leadership cultures. We will illustrate the model with an analogy: an airliner taking off.

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