In this section you can download Luc’s articles by clicking on the links below. You may print, copy and use these articles for your personal and professional use – as is – as freely as you wish.

20 Knappe Koppen (2010 – Interview Dutch)

On August 13th 2010 Luc was interviewed by Koen Delvaux for the series 20 Knappe Koppen.

You can read the interview here.

A Twitter Brainstorm … Why On Earth Would You?

In May-2010 Luc was interviewed by the Change Management Institute (CMI) on the Twitter Brainstorms he organizes with the LinkedIn group Organizational Change Practitioners.

What Does it Take for HR to Become a Business Partner? (HR Expert Online – October 2008)

Learn three of the challenges that an HR department can face in a business environment.

Find out three steps that HR can take to become a valued business partner within its organization, and how SAP HR functionality can help achieve this goal.

An Organization that Is Serious about Processes Is Serious about HR (HR Expert Online – May 2007)

Uncover how SAP implementations require serious business process reengineering efforts.

Even if your HR system has already gone live, you can benefit from this fresh perspective on how to coexist successfully with other departments.

Forget Dave Ulrich: HR Does Not Drive Organizational Change (Workforce.com – February 2007)

Let’s face it: By their very nature, the fundamental HR processes are aimed at safeguarding stability.

But when you ask HR managers about the core competencies of their departments, they will tell you that the management of organizational change is at the forefront.

They are wrong.

Change Management Cooking Class [pdf] (2005)

95% of the population worries about change. The remaining 5% are managers who wish to implement change. Imagine your relief if there was such a thing as a recipe for successful change management. No more doubts, everyone would be motivated and production wouldn’t be at risk.

The cooking class in this article may not guarantee you a Michelin star, but if applied properly, you will save yourself a lot of time and worries.

Rope Dancing [pdf] (2005)

Teaming up with individuals from other cultures and time zones is not so uncommon anymore. What once used to be the sole predicate of adventurous businessmen, who were keen on discovering other cultures, is rapidly becoming the number one burden of a major part of middle management in multinational companies.

How can you possibly team up through a wire with people you never actually met? ‘Think global, act local’ is merely digested by top management and here comes ‘local meets local’!

Communication Antislip Training [pdf] (2003)

This article focuses on communications between large independent project teams and the organizations for which they work. We can compare a project team with a bus, that needs to brought from point A to point B by the project leader.

Precisely as in traffic, there are several rules to the communications game. They increase the chance that you cross the traffic undamaged. Unfortunately these rules are not learned at the mother’s knee and are therefore not a part of our basic set of competencies.

Training? Huh?! [pdf] (2002)

In this article, it is argued that early interaction with users during the course of a project really pays off when going live. As a project manager, one needs to keep an eye on the quality of the training delivered, not to mention the resistance from the organisation.

One constantly needs to keep an eye on the user’s side of the project. But how? The training cycle is an old and widespread idea that can help you out. Yet evidence shows that very lit- tle of it has been translated into practice.