Mastering Organizational Change Management

We've learned that effective project manager and business analyst collaboration can improve the success rates of projects dramatically. More recently, thought leaders and industry have begun to recognize the synergies of these roles with the discipline known as change management and the opportunity for even better success rates. Recent studies have shown a 30% improvement in the success rates of strategic projects at organizations using change management regularly. This reference provides a practical model for senior business analysts, project management leaders, organizational change professionals, and executives to follow in developing and successfully executing any important change initiatives or enterprise transformation efforts, and for measuring and analyzing the effectiveness of the change and the activities used to achieve successful results. Key Features: -Discusses the barriers to successful change, the need and how to gain a thorough understanding of the business ecosystem before planning and executing any change effort -Condenses the vast number of root-causes for change into a few all-encompassing reasons -Describes four proven frameworks for managing change, and outlines which framework tends to work best given the barriers to change, business ecosystem, and all-encompassing reasons for the change, and the project or program objectives and organizational goals -Covers how to develop and execute a winning organization change management strategy, and the key stages, activities and techniques best suited for a variety situations -Illustrates how to measure organizational change, including how to develop and use a change scorecard for predicting an organization's ability to make a change successfully, evaluating it throughout the transformation, and after it is completed -Offers impact assessment tools, a functional complexity matrix, and a change scorecard template for managing an organization change project and measuring its success