This document discusses trends in change management adoption practices. It covers several topics:
1. Increased awareness of the need for change management and its value in transitions.
2. A focus on developing competencies through training and leadership development to support change.
3. Ensuring adequate resources, including establishing dedicated change management groups and underestimating resource needs.
4. Addressing issues of "change saturation" from taking on too much change simultaneously.
5. Integrating change management with project management practices given the increased focus on project-driven organizations.
6. Adopting structured methodologies, tools and language to support change management.
7. Managing a portfolio of changes across an
2. Introduction to Change Management
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Change management is the approach to transitioning individual, team and organization towards desired future state.
What is Change Management?
• A method for reducing and
managing resistance to change.
• A necessary component for any
organizational performance
improvement process.
• The process how we drive the
adoption and usage we need to
realize business results.
What isn’t Change Management?
• A stand-alone process for
designing a business solution.
• A stand-alone technique for
improving organizational
performance.
• A process improvement method.
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Change
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Change
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Prosci’s Change Management Process
3. Introduction to Change Management
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Change management focuses on people, and is about ensuring change is thoroughly, smoothly and lastingly implemented.
Change management objectives-
• Sponsorship
• Buy-in
• Involvement
• Impact
• Communication
• Readiness
Ensuring there is clear expression of the reasons for change, and helping the sponsor communicate this
Identifying "change agents"
Assessing all the stakeholders and defining the nature of sponsorship, involvement and communication that will be required
Planning the involvement and project activities of the change sponsor(s)
Planning how and when the changes will be communicated, and delivering the communications messages.
Assessing the impact of the changes on people and the organization's structure.
Planning activities needed to address the impacts of the change
Ensuring that people involved and affected by the change understand the process change
Identifying and agreeing the success indicators for change, and ensure they are regularly measured and reported on.
Activities involved in making change a
success
4. Change Management Adoption Strategies
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Chin and Benne (1984) outlined three meta-approaches to the implementation of change in social and organizational contexts.
Strategy Selection Considerations-
• Degree of Change
• Degree of Resistance
• Population
• Stakes
• Time Frame
• Expertise
• Dependency
Change
Strategies-
•People are rational beings, will follow self interest.
•Success is based on communication of information and offering of incentives.
Empirical-Rational
•People are social beings and will adhere to social norms.
•Success is based on redefining and reinterpreting existing norms and values.
Normative-Re educative
•People are generally compliant and will generally do what they are told to do.
•Success is based on implementation of authority and imposition of sanctions.
Power-Coercive
•People oppose loss and disruptions but adapt readily to new circumstances.
•Success is based on creating a new organization and gradually shifting people from old to new environment.
Environmental-Adaptive
•Being purposeful and being aware.
Action-Oriented
• There is no single strategy for
managing a change.
• There may be a grand
strategy, but for an initiative
mix of strategies is needed.
5. Change Management Models
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Models of change management are useful in that they describe and simplify a process so that principles can be understood and applied.
Kurt Lewin’s Unfreeze-
Change-Refreeze
model
• Unfreeze
• Transition
• Refreeze
ADKAR model
• Awareness
• Knowledge
• Desire
• Ability
• Reinforcement
McKinsey 7-S Model
• Shared Values
• Strategy
• Structure
• Systems
• Style
• Staff
• Skills
Kotter’s 8 Step Change
Model
• Increase the urgency
• Change management coalition
• Create the vision for change
• Communicate the change vision
• Empower staff
• Create short term goals.
• Consolidate and produce more
change
• Instill the change in culture.
6. Latest Trends in Adoption in CM
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Top 10 trends in change management in 2014
Awareness
• Greater awareness of the need for and value of change
management
Competency and leadership development
• Training, skills development, leadership pipeline planning,
succession planning
Resource utilization-
• Human resources and physical resources
• Establishment of change management group
• Underestimation and allocation of change management resources
Change saturation
Integration with project management
Increased usage of structured methodology, tools and language
Management of portfolio of change
7. Greater awareness of the need for and value of change management
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Awareness as well as urgency for change is the critical factor for incorporating and sustaining the
change.
Answers the primary question – “ Why we need change”
Effects of overlooking this-
• Microsoft leading operator in PC’s and laptop overlooked the advent of android in mobile
phones.
• Kodak was not able to in-vision the power of digital camera and relied on existing film rolls
Effects of being aware of future change needs –
• Capitalizing in tremendous increase in usage of mobile s and its utilities – successful merger
of WhatsApp- $22 billion
8. Change management – Stakeholders and competency development
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Competent trainer – Train the trainer for the change management.
Start with appreciation of the importance of change management competencies throughout the
organization
Be strategic on where, what and how to train
Build competencies at multiple levels in the organization – from the CEO to blue coloured workers
P&G acquisition of Warner Lambert Co.
Issues –
• Dilution of core business due to venture in pharmaceutical industry
• Resignation of CEO- Durk I.Jager , controls to A.G. Lafley
• Stakeholders dumped the stocks and profitability declined
Approach-
• Dissolution of strategies not generating revenues
• Leadership development and training for developing talent pipeline
9. Change management – Dedication of resources, change management group
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Starts with appreciation that change management delivers value and hence it is good to invest in
the change
Hybrid structure – dedicated human resource
Shared services – technology, manpower, R&D
Decide on best resourcing model Action items: Decide on best resourcing model
Consider the influencing and constraining factors
Distillery bottling company-
New technology of multifeed distilling to overcome erratic availability of raw material
Shared information- Delphi technique , Union workers involvement in decision making
Research and development
Redundant workers- training and job rotation
10. Change Saturation
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Change saturation results from two distinct elements –
• change capacity (how much change can we handle) and change disruption (how much
change is occurring).
Change saturation - Change disruption > Change capacity.
Why change saturation occurs?
• The amount of change is on the rise in most organizations
• Project teams focus on their own solutions without thinking about the cumulative impact
• No one is looking at the cumulative impact in the organization
Effect of change saturation
• Automatic resistance
• Lack of focus on operations
• Attrition and turnover
• Low morale throughout the organization
• Changes were viewed as distractions
China youth survey 2013-14- 600,000 youths died due to over-fatigue, heart failures and anxiety
11. Use of structured methodology, tools and language
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Nearly 80% of study participants utilized a structured approach .
Nearly six in 10 projects are utilizing a structured change methodology
The use of a structured approach to change management was cited as the No. 2 contributor to success
(behind active and visible executive sponsorship).
“Change Management Tools” rated as one of the most important tools added to the
Portfolio of tools available with Bain & Co.
Best Practices study Percentage of participants that followed a particular CM methodology
2003 34%
2008 58%
2011 72%
12. Change PortfolioManagement
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• Organizations today are facing, and creating, more change than ever before.
• The frequency, number, size and importance of change all continue to increase.
• Project teams are consumed with finding the right solution to the opportunity or issue they are
addressing with their projects.
• Managers and supervisors are working to keep the business running while implementing changes to how
that work gets done.
• The unfortunate reality, though, is that no one is keeping tabs on all of the change happening - the
portfolio of change.
• Front-line employees are often the only ones who know how much change is actually occurring because
they are the ones who encounter it each and every day.
• Reasons why Change Portfolio Management is needed-
The ever increasing
amount of change
organizations are
facing
The potential for
change saturation
The consequences
of change collision
13. Integration with project management
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Changing business environment has caused many companies to shift from being operations focused to
being project driven( Jarocki, 2011).
Turner (2009) - continuous change in organizations requires project-oriented management as the
“control and monitor model” is no longer sufficient.
In Traditional PM focus is on tactics and results vis a vis CM where
• CM professionals are traditionally from social sciences and humanities backgrounds and have a
tendency to avoid the task and process-orientated approach
• By placing a much stricter emphasis on the human, political and organizational change
considerations
Implementing and coordinating the logistics of a complex change project requires PM skills to plan and
execute the change initiative (Kotter and Dan, 2002).
Therefore,
• whilst PM processes and techniques are ideally suited to CM, its techniques are also valuable.
• CM and PM are no more mutually exclusive.
14. Integration with project management
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Example – IT organizations have propagated the idea of handling changes as a project which is more and
more being adapted by manufacturing organizations and other domains.
15. Integration with project management
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