Research

Each initiative or project you undertake requires some level of project management and change management. These two disciplines are tools used to support the implementation of a variety of changes that you may be undertaking. Whether you are deploying an ERP solution across the entire organisation, Integrating two organisations and their information systems following a merger or acquisition, or redesigning the physical layout of an office space, you are effecting change. These changes will not only impact areas like  technology, infrastructure and processes, but will necessarily impact people and finally the culture of the organisation.

In a recent survey, this is what our clients told us:

• 36% work within an environment where there is a Change Management Framework in place, through which all change is managed
• 26% of our respondents' organisations still deal with change on an ad-hoc basis and rely heavility upon the Project Management as to whether it happens at all.
• 25% believe that Change Management is an integral part of the organisation's project planning phase.
• 11% work within organisations where Change Management Specialists are dedicated to managing change.
• *2% had other notable comments to make:

Change Management is only discussed from the perspective of configuration management (system changes), and The way that change is managed varies greatly between internal and external facing projects. The good news is that currently within the majority of organisations surveyed, there is a formal Change Management Framework in place to manage change in a rigorous and consistent way.

The bad news is that following in close second place, many organisations still seem to view change as something that happens at the discretion of resources involved in and managing projects and programmes within the organization.

The evidence suggests that we still have some way to go in properly integrating Change Management into everything we do, and seeing Change Management as an essential and inherent element in delivering initiatives through projects and project management. There is much evidence to suggest a link between change being ‘planned-in’, and ultimately successful project delivery.

If you have any questions about Change Management courses, require some assistance with a change initiative or would like a PM-Partners group consultant to come and visit you for a health check, please phone +61 1300 701 314 or email