Rapid Transformation

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Phase 3

Paving the Road

Let your plans be dark and as impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

—Sun Tzu

There are two sides to every coin, and this rings especially true when we look at phase 3. On the one hand, phase 3 represents the official end of the 90 days transformation effort. On the other hand, it represents the first step toward implementation, a new beginning for the organization. Hence, phase 3 represents the tipping point between past and future, beginning and end.

In this phase, the rapid response teams must first tie up the loose ends and continue to move forward toward the conclusion of the planning stage in the transformation effort. At the same time, however, the teams must plant the seeds and ...