Resources For Change A Guide To Projects

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.

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.

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.