Change Management

Organisations are looking at change management projects to help facilitate and accommodate rapid technological advancement, the need to evolve, keep efficiencies high and cost low. 

Our most recent breakfast event organised by Mina Davogic and Clint Davies, featured Beverley Andrews as keynote speaker, chapter lead of the Association of Change Management Professionals. Along with Janice Marcon who is a HR Executive who provided insights into change management for organisations.

It is a key topic of discussion for a lot of organisations and professionals within Finance and Procurement, Supply Chain & Logistics and impacts all other areas and business units. With the Resources Sector picking up again in Western Australia, organisations want to explore different options available to prepare for change management projects.

What is change management?

It is a collective term for all approaches to prepare and support individuals, teams, and organisations in making organisational change. 

The most common change drivers include:    

 · Technological evolution, process reviews, crisis and consumer habit changes

·     Pressure from new business entrants

·     Acquisitions, mergers, and organisational restructuring

It includes methods that redirect or redefine the use of resources, business process, budget allocations, or other modes of operation that significantly change a company or organisation.

Why an integrated approach to change management?

·  Invest in change management – people, capabilities, leadership, tools.

· Spend the time understanding the complexities and alignment of your changes. It’s just as important to define what is not changing.

· Implementing change – consider your hiring practices.

· All new employees are potential change agents.

·  Executives, Managers, Team Leaders all need to be unified – they own the change. If they hear negative things on the change they need to act on it.

·  The experts in a process are the ones doing the process – listen to what they have to say.

· Find out why they do things the way they do.

· Your biggest sync is your passionate person who has gone south – turn them around and they will be your biggest advocate.

·  Develop network channels that go across hierarchical levels.