Change Management – It’s Time for Transformation
Change management ought to become cause evolution.
Change management ought to become cause evolution.
By definition, in order to improve something, a change has to occur. I have benchmarked several companies and it seems that those that do the best with their improvement efforts have a workforce that embraces change. If, on the other hand, there is a culture of fear and the workers are terrified to try something different, nothing will improve.
“For the Users, With the Users, By the Users.”
Inspired the legendary Abraham Lincoln’s famous quote, BPM Project Management requires a lavish dollop of democratic practices.
Traditional Project Management practices cover the 3 pillars of any project – Scope, Time and Budget. But, BPM requires more than these and includes a fourth and possibly the most difficult of them all to manage – Effort.
We have heard some representatives of big companies saying that it is easy to change small companies, but changing a big one is difficult to do. Still there are several big companies like Best Buy, Apple, Microsoft, Google and IBM that are huge and still succeeding well. One thing that is common to them is…
The term “tipping point” crops up frequently, especially in discussions of world events such as financial collapse and climate change. Like the word “sustainable” which gets used with increasing abandon, and often with little thought to the actual meaning of the word, so too the term tipping point can be elusive and used in contexts where it may or may not be suitable. I’ve probably been guilty of this myself, but recently my thinking on the subject has been greatly clarified and I hope to pass on what I’ve learned about what does, and does not, constitute a tipping point.
You can listen to your CIO, or you can ignore her. After all, how important — really — is IT to your business?