Adoption

Help people make the change and sustain it.

Change management for technology and information initiatives, focused on adoption and behaviour, not just a communications plan and a launch email.

Change managementFrom issue to outcome

Starting point

People use the old way

Low awareness
Resistance
Workarounds
Apply ADKAR

Result

The new way holds

People understand
People can do it
Adoption is reinforced

What it is

Change management built around ADKAR: Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability and Reinforcement.

What it solves

Change

Many technology initiatives fail because the people expected to work differently do not make the change.

A training session and launch email are not enough. ADKAR addresses how each person understands, adopts and sustains the new way of working.

What the engagement covers

The work is scoped around your actual environment.

The engagement can include the following areas, shaped around the problem to be solved and the decisions your organisation needs to make.

  • Impact assessment across affected roles and processes
  • Stakeholder and sponsor engagement
  • Communications planning and delivery
  • Training design and capability uplift
  • Adoption measurement and reinforcement
  • Resistance and readiness mapping
  • Post-go-live adoption measurement

Why act now

Built around ADKAR (Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, Reinforcement), the model built specifically around how individual people move through change, not just how a project plan says they should. Change support is far cheaper before go-live than remediation after a rollout has lost the room.

How the work proceeds

A clear sequence from the current position to an actionable result.

Each stage has a defined purpose. The exact depth and timing are agreed around the size and complexity of the engagement.

How the work moves

Apply ADKAR through a clear sequence

5 stages
01

Awareness

Build understanding of why the change is happening, and what happens if it doesn't.

02

Desire

Build genuine willingness to engage with the change, not just compliance with it.

03

Knowledge

Give people the information and training to know how to change.

04

Ability

Turn knowledge into demonstrated capability, actually working the new way.

05

Reinforcement

Sustain the change so it holds, measuring adoption and addressing relapse before it becomes the new normal.

What you receive

Useful outputs your team can act on.

The work concludes with practical material designed for decision-making, delivery, governance, or handover.

  • Change impact assessment
  • Stakeholder and communications plan
  • Training materials and delivery
  • Adoption measurement and reporting

Expected outcomes

What should be different when the work is complete.

  1. 01

    Adoption that is still holding six months after go-live, not just at launch

  2. 02

    A measurable return on the technology or process investment

  3. 03

    Less reversion to old habits and workarounds

Who it is for

Built around the need, not the size of the organisation.

The same service applies in different operating contexts. The scope changes to match the environment, obligations, and decisions involved.

Public sector

Agencies rolling out records, case management, or core platform change across dispersed teams.

Commercial organisations

Organisations replacing a system that a large part of the workforce uses daily.

Change questions

The questions we get asked first.

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