CHANGE REWIRED
Digital change.
Human focus.
CHANGE REWIRED
Digital change.
Human focus.
About Change Rewired
Change Rewired is your guide to navigating digital transformation with confidence. Inspired by McKinsey's digital transformation framework, and picking up the real-world challenges it sets for change management, this book explores how agile ways of working, digital adoption platforms (DAPs) and artificial intelligence (AI) can reshape the way organisations evolve. A must-read for transformation leaders, change managers, and digital practitioners.
Change Rewired builds on and critically examines McKinsey’s acclaimed and thought-provoking work, translating it into practical insights for change managers and transformation leaders working at the front line of organisational change. It offers original analysis and commentary, with a particular focus on change management, DAPs, and the evolving AI in driving and managing change.
NOTE Whilst this book engages extensively with McKinsey’s Rewired framework, it is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by McKinsey & Company.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mick Newies has been working on IT-enabled change for longer than he wants to think about.
Beginning back in the ’90s, this Generation X’er has lived through the rise of mainframes and green screens, the explosion of desktop computing, and the earliest days of dial-up internet. He’s seen organisations chase the promise of ERP, the dot-com boom and bust, the shift from on-premise to cloud computing, and now the brave new world of digitisation and AI — each wave bringing new tools, new jargon, new promises, and new challenges.
Along the way, he’s seen what makes change succeed — and what makes it fail — in the messy, political, and very human world of large (and not-so-large) organisations.
Change Rewired distils those lessons into a framework for today’s digital era. It brings together emerging technologies like digital adoption platforms (DAPs) and generative AI, with the timeless challenges of leadership, culture, and user engagement. In doing so, it describes a different kind of change management — one that is lean, data-driven, platform-enabled, and embedded deep in the heart of digital transformation.
For Mick, it's never really been about the technology. It’s always been about putting people first. About helping them — and the organisations they operate in — to learn, adapt, and thrive amid constant reinvention.
