Resources For Change A Guide To Projects

Organizations today must become more innovative and agile to succeed. By nature, innovation and agility result in constant, ongoing organizational change and managing that change well is part of realizing business results. Managing Change in Organizations: A Practice Guide (Project Management Institute) further informs the standard practice of portfolio, program, and project management. In this paper, the authors focus on projects and programs as the mechanism for implementing change and resources to help organizations successfully manage and sustain that change. The paper examines the essential elements of organizational program management (OPM), the impact of change on the OPM environment, and the change life cycle framework.

Managing Change in Organizations: A Practice Guide is unique in that it integrates two traditionally disparate world views on managing change: organizational development/human resources and portfolio/program/project management. By bringing these together, professionals from both worlds can use project management approaches to effectively create and manage change. This practice guide begins by providing the reader with a framework for creating organizational agility and judging change readiness.

From the Hubble space telescope that was launched with a malfunctioning device that resulted in all the pictures it took being blurred, to the extremely late completion of England's new national soccer stadium at Wembley, history is full of example of projects that damaged organisations because they were late, over budget, failed to deliver what they were meant to, or were complete disasters.This guide explains the principles and techniques of project management and how they are interconnected with the day-to-day management of a business. It is an invaluable handbook for helping firms deliver successful project outcomes and achieve lasting benefit through effective change.

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Executing Change in the Organization In today's fast-paced environment, organizations put a premium on project management team members, like you, who can react and move quickly in response to changing conditions and pressures. A Guide to Executing Change for the Project Management Team offers you and your other project management team members the information and tools needed to successfully execute change within your team and ultimately your organization. During the course of the Executing Change in the Organization workshop, you will help to establish the framework and structure for your team's project and identify and address the key issues that will impact your team's change process. A Guide to Executing Change for the Project Management Team is the hands-on resource for guiding you in your pivotal role to drive change successfully in your organization and keep one step ahead of the competition. Your team will Determine the resources requirements Build a conceptual work plan Identify the risks and obstacles Develop the information needs Create a project calendar Address issues of communication Establish the measures and indicators