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Afiniti Announces Collaboration Agreement with Andersen Consulting
Afiniti has today announced it has become a collaborating firm of Andersen Consulting. Andersen Consulting is a global consulting practice providing…
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Change 101
Why Change Leadership Coaching Is Critical to Driving Successful Transformation
Change efforts keep falling short. Programs lose momentum, adoption slows, and the distance between the plan and the reality on…
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Supporting Workforce Engagement in an Era of AI Transformation
People change is at the heart of everything we do at Afiniti, and in my 20+ years’ experience partnering with…
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Stakeholder Communication Plan: A Practical Guide for Leaders Driving Change
Change initiatives rarely collapse because the strategy deck was weak or the funding fell short. They stall because people were…
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The 5 Mistakes that will Derail Your ERP Transformation
Too many ERP programs are still positioned as technology initiatives owned by IT. That framing is where the problems start.…
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Afiniti Listed in FT’s Leading Management Consultants 2026 Report
For the ninth consecutive year, Afiniti has been recommended by our clients and peers as one of the best management…
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AI is the New Electricity, But Learning is the Real Enabler
Driving past the UK's famous Stonehenge after a vicious storm had swept through my home of Cornwall, I was listening…
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Stakeholder Mapping Explained: Tools, Stakeholder Maps, and Examples
Change initiatives are shaped by people as much as by plans or technology. Employees, leaders, customers, suppliers, partners, and regulators…
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The Change Curve Model in Change Management
It’s a tough truth: many change efforts fall short, and the reason is rarely the plan, the budget, or the…
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Change Leadership: An Executive Guide to Driving Transformation
Leading through change is one of the most demanding responsibilities placed on senior executives. Organizations that lack the ability to…
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Afiniti Sponsors Internal Learning Solution of the Year Award at The Learning Awards 2026
Afiniti is proud to sponsor the Internal Learning Solution of the Year Award at the 30th annual Learning Awards 2026, hosted by the…
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Change Models: How to Select, Blend and Apply Them Effectively
Leaders searching for change management models usually expect a familiar catalog. Prosci ADKAR, Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model, Lewin’s Three-Stage Model,…
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From Strategy to Impact: Building a Change Management Strategy That Actually Delivers
Change arrives in every organization, and how leaders prepare for it sets the tone for performance, morale, and long-term capability.…
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Change Management vs Project Management: How to Align People and Delivery
Two disciplines play critical roles in guiding organizations through change successfully: but when it comes to change management vs project…
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Good Project Governance: Ensure Project Success & Value
Good project governance protects investments, keeps leadership informed, and allows teams to deliver with confidence. It defines the framework in…
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Afiniti and Subsea7 Win Award of Excellence at the 2025 IoIC Awards
We’re proud to announce that Afiniti, in partnership with Subsea7, has received an Award of Excellence in the Best Engagement…
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Digital Transformation Roadmap Guide: Steps, Best Practices, and Real-World Examples
Companies across every industry are investing heavily in digital transformation, but many never see the results they hoped for. Too…
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Digitization vs Digitalization vs Digital Transformation: A 101 Guide
Executives hear these three terms everywhere – in boardrooms, consulting reports, and technology roadmaps. They sound similar. They all involve…
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The AI Operating Model: How to Scale, Govern, and Win in the AI-First Era
Early wins with AI, like a sharp pilot program or a clever proof of concept, are easy to highlight. But…
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Your Complete Guide to Target Operating Model Success
When you're driving major business transformation, the Target Operating Model becomes your most powerful strategic tool. It's the comprehensive blueprint…
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AI Adoption Challenges and Strategies: A People-First Playbook
AI adoption is accelerating across industries, but so is the cost of failure. Organizations are investing heavily in sophisticated AI…
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How You Can Overcome Resistance to Change: Strategies That Work
Leading organizational transformation means confronting resistance to change head-on, potentially from more than one-third of your team. Every employee brings…
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Afiniti Recognized as One of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025
Afiniti, an FT-named leading business change consultancy, is thrilled to announce that it has been recognized as one of the…
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Turning on a Dime: Practical Tactics to Lead Through Rapid Change
The call comes at 4:30 on a Friday afternoon. New tariffs just hit your primary export market. Or maybe drug…
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How Can Managers Lead Effectively through Change and Uncertainty? Build the Lighthouse
The business maxim "transform or become obsolete" has never been more critical for executives. While companies have always needed to…
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The Change Continuum: Thriving in an Era of Constant Transformation
Rethinking Organizational Change in American Business What does organizational change mean to you? Traditionally, we've conceptualized it as a finite…
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Managing Digital Transformation: The SIMPLE™ Framework for Sustainable Success
Across America's business landscape, we're witnessing a fundamental shift in how organizations approach transformation. The era of isolated change initiatives…
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The Ultimate Change Management Toolkit Guide for Leaders
Organizational change introduces complexity, uncertainty, and risk. Whether you are reorganizing a business unit, implementing new technology, or shifting organizational…
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5 Trends that Will Impact Business Change in 2025 – and Practical Advice to Embrace Them
What a year 2024 has been for business change! The continued impact of AI, macroeconomic and geopolitical influences and growing…
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Overcoming the 70% Failure Rate: Navigating Digital Transformation Challenges
Digital transformation isn't optional anymore—it's essential for survival in today's competitive landscape. Yet despite widespread recognition of its importance, up…
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Reimagining Business Transformation: Why a Creative Approach Drives Successful Change
When Afiniti works with senior leaders, helping to deliver successful business change, we’re always told our unique creative approach brings…
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The Human Factor: Successfully Driving Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is accelerating at unprecedented rates, requiring organizations to move beyond simply keeping pace to actively driving transformation as…
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Afiniti Named Best in Class at the 75th IoIC Awards
Afiniti is delighted to reveal that we were named Best in Class for Best Leadership Communication Program at the 75th…
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Demonstrating Your Strategic Value Across the Enterprise
The whole may exceed the sum of its parts, but each component must still deliver exceptional value. This principle becomes…
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Building Change Capability: Teaching Your Organization to Fish
You've heard the ancient wisdom: give someone a fish, feed them for a day. Teach them to fish, and you…
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Leveraging Change Management Success Stories: Celebrate Early, Celebrate Often
"Great, another transformation initiative—I'll just wait until this one disappears too." This sentiment echoes through corridors of American businesses experiencing…
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Why You Need a Clear Business Case for Change
Don’t Face Change Alone: The True Value of Change Management
2024 is shaping up to be a whirlwind year: a landscape brimming with opportunity, yet fraught with economic uncertainty and…
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Team Insight
The Benefits of Coaching in the Workplace: Talent Insight
We believe in enabling our clients to do change better by building their internal capability. This, along with our core…
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Building a Compelling Business Case: The Foundation of Successful Change
When organizations embark on transformational journeys to maintain competitive advantage, a well-crafted business case serves as the essential navigation chart.…
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A Strategic Navigator’s Guide to Technical Change Management
When innovation sweeps through an organization, one critical element often remains in the background: change management. Even the most technical…
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Leading Change: The Essential Leadership Superpower for Transformation
At last year's Oil and Gas Digital Transformation Conference. Afiniti Energy Partner Gill Hughes shared her wealth of insights from…
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What is a Change Program? How to Create a Winning One
Implementing significant transformation within your organization requires more than good intentions; it demands a structured change program. For leaders steering…
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Anchoring Change: Securing Lasting Value from Your Transformation Journey
You're at the precipice of success! After months of diligent planning and execution—winning stakeholder support, training your teams, finalizing your…
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Ensuring Change Endures: Building Transformation that Lasts
Organizations invest significant resources in transformation initiatives, but the true test of success isn't just implementation—it's whether the change sticks…
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4 Strategies for Creating Lasting Change Communication
For communications professionals supporting organizational transformations, the real challenge begins after the formal project concludes. The critical task becomes embedding…
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Implementing Change: Your Roadmap to Success for Go-Live Countdown
After months of intensive planning and countless program meetings, you believe you’re ready to go live and begin implementing change.…
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Afiniti Listed in FT’s UK Leading Management Consultants 2024 Report
For the seventh year running, Afiniti has been named in the Financial Times special report ‘UK’s Leading Management Consultants 2024’…
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Becoming an Effective and Visible Change Leader
At Afiniti, our clients frequently ask us about embodying the role of effective Change Leaders. Many recognize that the capabilities…
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Change 101
The Importance of Change Impact Assessments
When implementing change across your organization, the change impact assessment (CIA) serves as a critical cornerstone that significantly contributes to…
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Change 101
What is a Strategic Roadmap? A Path to Transform Your Vision into Actionable Reality
Defining the strategy that will steer your business or transformation is as essential as it is complex; building a strategic…
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Team Insight
How can Companies Prepare for Change? An Expert’s Insight
In this talent insight, Afiniti partner Sarah Matthews provides practical and actionable advice on how organizations can prepare for change…
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What is Leadership Team Development? The Secret to Sustaining Change
Leadership team development should be a feature of all mature organizations, especially those undergoing change. Often, the focus of development…
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Artificial Intelligence in Business: 5 Tips for Successful Adoption
Artificial intelligence in business has to be one of the biggest topics this year, and for good reason. By January…
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Benefits of Stakeholder Engagement and Strong Culture: 6Lever™ Change Readiness Assessment Insights
In the final entry of our 6Lever™ Change Readiness Assessment Insights, partner and managing consultant Dee Patel explores the benefits…
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Employee Engagement Technology to Empower People and Accelerate Change
Employee engagement technology has become increasingly important in the workplace. With organizations across industries looking to harness the power of…
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Driving ESG Goals Through Workforce Engagement and Change Management
Every major corporation today faces mounting pressure to align operations and product development with meaningful Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)…
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The Power of Creative Communications in Driving Organizational Change
Mandy Dohren has always known she wanted to be a creative designer, and at Afiniti she helps architect, develop and…
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How to Improve Employee Engagement through Communication
In this insight, get 5 practical tips on how to improve employee engagement through communication. Employee engagement has been an…
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Are Learning Preferences a Part of Your Change Strategy?
Change and learning are very closely linked; personal change involves unlearning old ways of behaving and learning new ones. Despite…
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Change Methodology and Capability: 6Lever™ Change Readiness Assessment Insights
The next piece of Afiniti’s 6LeverTM change readiness assessment series explores the critical role capability and change methodology should play…
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Analysis vs. Synthesis: Leveraging Local Ingenuity to Drive Global Transformation
It’s no secret that organizational change is difficult, costly and complex. However, what’s less known is that one major reason…
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The Importance of Values: Why is Integrity a Value Needed for Successful Change?
The last entries in our Importance of Values series explored keeping people at the heart and putting the client first.…
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Creative Collaboration for Change Communications at Afiniti
In this Talent Insight, creative team lead Michael Charles explains the importance of creativity in delivering successful change communications and…
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Change Leadership and Drivers: 6Lever™ Change Readiness Assessment Insights
Nobody said change is easy. But if twenty-plus years of deploying our change readiness assessment has taught us anything, it’s…
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Values: What It Means to Put the Client First
Putting the client first. As with many core values, it sounds like the right thing to say, but it’s one…
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Team Insight
Change Consulting: A Natural Next Step
For change consultant Eleanor, a fantastic experience in learning and development led to a new and exciting career at Afiniti.…
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Why Values Matter: Putting People at the Heart
“Organizations don’t change, people do, one at a time.” Prosci Achieving sustainable, long-term transformation requires attention to people alongside process…
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The Importance of Values
Once upon a time profit was the main, if not only, driver toward a company’s success. Today there are so…
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ADKAR Model Explained: How Senior Leaders Can Apply It to Drive Successful Change
The ADKAR model often sits at the center of effective change because it reflects a simple truth: organizations only move…
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Don’t Just Change Your Mind
One of the first words most children learn is ‘no’. And, as humans, we crave independence despite being very social…
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Why Choose an SAP S/4HANA Change Partner for Your Implementation
SAP ECC forms the backbone of many enterprise IT infrastructures. With SAP ending mainstream maintenance for SAP ECC and other…
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SAP S/4HANA Overview –Why It Matters
A Quick Background Check SAP was established in 1972, during an era when most companies relied on in-house developers to…
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Making Elephants Out of Mosquitoes: Understanding Change Team Dynamics
The landscape of organizational change - whether it's digital, operational, or cultural - brings energy and momentum. Teams stretch beyond…
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Merging Cultures: How to Build a Unified Organization After a Merger
Why Organizations Find Themselves Merging Cultures Organizations often find themselves merging cultures when they enter joint ventures, complete mergers, or…
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5 Strategies For Agile Change Management
We previously examined the agile mindset - staying responsive and adaptive, ready to capitalize on opportunities or pivot away from…
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Transformation – Where Do We Start?
So, you want to transform your business? Perhaps you have already decided that technology is the key. You have started…
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Integrated Project Planning: De-Risk and Accelerate Initiatives
Integrated project planning is the disciplined alignment of scope, benefits, resources, cost, risk, and stakeholder engagement across multiple initiatives so…
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The Importance of Storytelling for Business Change
With continual change becoming the new norm for modern business, the chances are, no matter what industry or sector you…
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Change Management Tips – Building the User Journey
You may have heard the term ‘change journey’ before.  This describes the phase that an organization will go through in…
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Compelling Change Management Communications – The Key Transformation Success
Robust change management communications are critical to achieving your transformation goals. Even when your organizational change centers on a technical…
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How Does Change Management Integrate With Project Management?
There's ongoing debate about how change management activities integrate with project management frameworks. After all, project management already includes communications…
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Good Practice Reminders for Writing Your Communications Strategy
Come on, be honest, how many times have you googled ‘How to write a communications strategy’?  I admit I have…
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Why Is Measuring Internal Communications Often Overlooked?
The value of measuring internal communications can’t be understated, particularly in times of change. So why the reluctance? Many people feel they’ve…
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Putting Your Team on the Map
Is your team not getting the recognition and place within the business it deserves? Then you could benefit from team branding.…
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