Imagine that you, an experienced change management practitioner, are assigned a new change initiative to manage. You attend your first meeting with the project team ready to plan out the course of the project from now through go-live and beyond. However, you find out that they have only planned out the first two weeks of work! More shockingly, the project plan calls for only addressing work in these two week ‘sprint’ cycles. What do you do?
Change management has made many important strides over the course of the last several years. One of the most recent milestones of significance is a new requirement for change management on projects at the legislative level.
The research tells us that projects with excellent change management are 79% more likely to meet or exceed project objectives. But many companies are still wondering what change management is and is not and what “excellent change management” looks like. A recent interview by MindBrew with Scott McAllister of Prosci and Suraj Mohandas of Zilliant helps clear things up.
Is certification really necessary? Doesn’t experience alone qualify us? I understand the quandary, and it’s a question I am asked more often as more rigor and more certifications/accreditations enter into the change management discipline.
Let’s explore the question - because the bottom line is that there are some definite advantages to receiving change management certification.
Now more than ever, organizations are increasing their use of technology and looking to leverage it in more meaningful ways. Left and right we see organizations finding creative ways to use technology to enable a more agile workforce, reduce costs and better support both client and employee needs. The decision to leverage technology as a service creates significant impact on an organization at both the strategic and individual level.
Fortune Magazine recognized Prosci as one of the top 20 Best Places to Work in Consulting and Professional Services. Among a pool of over 600 organizations across the United States, Prosci ranked #14. We are honored and grateful to be recognized with such an accomplished group.
Last week, change management professionals from around the globe converged on Dallas, TX, for the Association Change Management Professionals’ annual global conference: Change Management 2016. We shared insights, lessons learned and a red-hot dance floor with our change colleagues. There is so much innovation within our own field, and I was energized and inspired by what is happening in the change management community.
What is your finish line?
That’s the question Mark Dorsett, a frequent global speaker from Prosci, will be asking participants during XI Congresso Brasileiro De Generciamento De Projectos, an annual PMI Congress in Brazil. Mark is a keynote speaker for the 2016 congress, happening this year in Belo Horizonte on June 13 – 15.