Managing Organizational Change
Background Information
The content of this white paper is based on information from ODR®, a consulting firm with more than 23 years of experience in helping organizations successfully implement change. ODR's emphasis is on giving organizations information about how to accomplish strategic and tactical change decisions on time and within budget.
More information about ODR is available at the company's Web site at www.odrinc.com.
Contents
Managing a World of Change 1
Defining the Terms 2
The Typical Approach 3
Objectives of Organizational Change Management 3
The Organizational Change Management Process 5
References 8
Glossary 9
Managing a World of Change
Why Organizational Change Management Is Important
Organizational change is a reality of the modern world, and that reality isn't likely to change anytime soon. If anything, organizations can expect to face the need for even more change in the future, at an ever faster pace.
Organizations have to deal with new technology and with upgrades for existing technology. They have to cope with reorganizations, process improvement initiatives, and mergers and acquisitions.
So, with all that change going on, how are organizations managing to cope?
Not very well.
The reality is that relatively few of the organizations that institute change? or are forced into it? realize the benefits they had hoped for, and, in fact, end up worse off than they were before.
That doesn't mean it's impossible to engage successfully in change. Many organizations do succeed.
How?
They succeed by integrating any technical solution that was part of the change mix with a thorough and proactive orchestration of the non-technical human aspe ...