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People Change Management will Increase the Probability of Project Success!


Projects are usually great at designing exceptional technology solutions and developing optimized and streamlined process, but may face challenges introducing the change into the organization.


People Change Management provides a competitive advantage, allowing organization to quickly and effectively implement change to meet market needs. Just focusing on delivering a world class technical solution or designing a perfect process is NOT enough!


  • Imagine if the people you are designing the solution for are not using the new process or not utilizing the technology correctly - not much will really change.


The key reason for people change management is to increase the probability of the project being successful. There are four significant factors that people change management provide:

 

  1. First, people change management is identifying and mitigating resistance to the change. You can assess the organization and take action by developing the Resistance plan.
  2. Secondly, it will improve the speed of Adoption which means how quick do people get on board using the new processes and tools.
  3. Thirdly, it will increase the Utilization which means how many people engage in the change.
  4. And lastly, it is optimizing the Proficiency of how well people are performing their new duties and responsibilities.

Personal Accomplishments

A results-driven senior IT leader, Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP), international speaker and educator with extensive international experience helping businesses drive major cultural and organizational transformation, improvement to IT services and products.

​Developed and executed multiple change management program based on industry recognized methodologies, combining ADKAR for personal change and John P. Kotter for major organizational change to drive cost reduction by improving speed of adoption, ultimate utilization and proficiency of new methods and process.


  • Enabled cultural change acceptance and smooth transition when implementing new and improved processes and IT products through an innovative training and communication and awareness program.
  • Minimized change resistance by developing and provide multiple web based training to 3,000+ employees.
  • Increased project success and go live readiness by creating and delivering multiple offerings of instructor led training to 100+ employees. Average feedback scoring of 9 (1-10 scale).
  • Improved knowledge transfer by determining course objectives, instructional strategies, training media, approach and deliverables.
  • Reduced cost by implementation of a multi-year strategic IT service management program and training plan for long term adoption of new tools and processes.
  • Increased process and ITIL/ITSM knowledge by developing a two day IT service management training curriculum to prepare partners and managers for ITIL foundation certification; 100% pass rate achieved.
  • Set-up and management of different communication channels such as; news-letters, on-line web based training, innovative lunch-and-learn workshops and intranet web portal facilitating “single-point-of-entry”.

Templates & Artifacts

  • Establish a Communication & Training Plan using the WHO-HOW-WHAT approach, itSMF Expo19, Sweden (PPT, Templates)
  • WHO-HOW-WHAT - An Approach to Effective People Change Management,  FUSION15, New orleans (Recording, PPT, Templates)
  • itSMF Ottawa Canada 2015 - People Change Management Strategy Workshop (PPT; Template)
  • itSMF Norway 2015 - People Change Management (Zip file - templates and presentation)
  • People Change Management - The Keys to a Successful Project FUSION14 Presentation (PPT; Voice recording)
  • People Change Management Reading List (Word)
  • ITSM Change Management Program (Word)
  • Communication and Training Plan TEMPLATE (Word; Excel)
  • Communication and Change Management Plan (PDF News Article)
  • WHO-HOW-WHAT Develop a Communication and Training Plan (Word; Excel)
  • WHO-HOW-WHAT Data TEMPLATE (PPT)
  • Knowledge Snack - A short Help Video - On-demand training (Video)
  • John P. Kotters 8 steps (web page)
  • ADKAR - A Change Management model
  • TBR (Training from the Back of the Room): https://www.bowperson.com/training-from-the-back-of-the-room/
  • OSA (Open Space Agility): https://openspaceagility.com/

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