Develop Organizational Change Strategy

Use

The purpose of this task is to develop an organizational change strategy for the project and subsequently create an appropriate and comprehensive change charter. The change charter should explain the reason for and nature of the chosen approach to managing change. Recommended roles, procedures and processes should be outlined. In summary, this change charter serves as the foundation document for all organizational change tasks and activities.

Procedure

  1. Together with the project managers, incorporate the urgency of the need for change into a (new) definition of the project mission and rationale.
  2. Identify main stakeholder groups and their readiness for the proposed change.
  3. Define project goals and objectives (with special emphasis on particular organizational change goals and objectives).
  4. Design critical success factors for Organizational Change Management (OCM).
  5. Identify other change programs in the organization and their impact on the project.
  6. Decide on the change strategy and approach.
  7. Decide on required roles, procedures and processes to realize the strategy.
  8. Document the decisions made.

Result

A high level stakeholder/readiness analysis is carried out.

The change strategy and charter are developed for the project.