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The Kotter 8 Step Change Process in StratEngine turns a change your company is making into a plan across eight stages, from creating urgency to anchoring the change in culture. It’s built for leading a specific change, such as a restructuring or a new strategy, rather than assessing the company in general. It needs the Professional plan or pay-as-you-go.
The Kotter 8 Step Change Process carries the Advanced badge. It’s included on the Professional plan and higher, and pay-as-you-go accounts can run it per analysis. On other plans its card shows Upgrade instead of Select. See Strategy plans and pricing.

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When to use it

  • You’re about to launch a transformation, restructuring or culture shift and want a plan for leading it.
  • A change effort is underway but stalling, and you want to see which stage needs work.
  • You need to explain to a team or board how a change will be rolled out.

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What you get

The Components tab has a Framework Summary and one Framework Details section for each stage:
  • Create Urgency
  • Build a Guiding Coalition
  • Form a Vision and Strategy
  • Communicate the Vision
  • Empower Action
  • Generate Short Term Wins
  • Consolidate Gains
  • Anchor in Culture
Every section is editable, and Sources lists what the analysis cited. Standard and Deep runs also fill the Momentum tab (trends affecting the company), which means Essential and higher plans, or pay-as-you-go at Standard or Deep. Deep runs add the Assumptions tab (what the analysis depends on, by risk), which means Professional, or pay-as-you-go at Deep. See Work with framework results and Analysis depth.

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Run it

1

Open Generate Framework

In the side menu, under Quick Frameworks, click Generate Framework.
2

Select Kotter 8 Step Change Process

Find Kotter 8 Step Change Process under Organizational & Change Management and click Select.
3

Fill in the business context

Complete the Business Context fields. See Generate a framework for what each one asks.Under Framework Inputs (Optional), the framework asks for Change Description and Current Stage of Change. Describe the specific change in Change Description. Saying whether you’re just starting, mid-flight or struggling to sustain it in Current Stage of Change helps the plan focus on the right stages.Click Continue.
4

Generate

On pay-as-you-go, pick an Analysis depth. Then click Generate Framework.