Project Change Management

What is Project Change Management?

You may have heard this question from your colleagues and co-workers in passing or presentations. But unfortunately, while many of us ‘know’ intuitively what Change Management is, we have difficulty conveying to others what we mean. In thinking about how to define change management, it is essential to provide context related to two other concepts;

1. The change itself
2. Project Management

Change Management and Project Management are critical disciplines applied to various organisational changes to improve the likelihood of success and return on investment.

Ultimately, the goal of change is to improve the organisation by altering how work is done When you introduce a change to the organisation, you are finally going to be affecting one or more of the following four parts of how the organisation operates:

1. Processes
2. Systems
3. Organisation structure
4. Job roles

While numerous approaches and tools can be used to improve the organisation, they all ultimately prescribe adjustments to one or more of the four parts of the organisation listed above. Change typically results as a reaction to specific problems or opportunities the organisation faces based on internal or external stimuli. So, for example, while the notion of ‘becoming more competitive’ or ‘becoming closer to the customer’ or ‘becoming more efficient’ can motivate change, at some point, these goals must be transformed into specific impacts on processes, systems, organisation structures or job roles. This is the process of defining ‘the change’. PMPi, we can help map and facilitate your project change management requirements, from defining the change, developing a detailed change management plan, implementing and monitoring change, to measuring its success.