A vision, change management skills, incentives, resources, and an action plan are all required in order to realize changes in a timely fashion. If you lack an effective vision, but have everything else, confusion rather than results will rule the day. If you have everything but the skills to facilitate the changes, anxiety will slow the pace of what's possible. If you are unable to shape incentives to encourage change, the pace that you can achieve will be significantly slowed. if you have everything but resources, your change program will achieve frustration rather than change. Finally, if you have everything else, but don't have an effective action plan, you're likely have a series of false starts for your change effort.

In the end, nearly all successful approaches for implementing organizational change suggest using an approach which includes: