Also why is "change management" a dicipline all by itself?

Post #81,050 by boxley 2/11/03 10:21:30 PM Reply	Also why is "change management" a dicipline all by itself? Who moved my cheese is a best seller. beats the shit out of me why it should be but it is. thanx, bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #81,156 by tseliot 2/12/03 12:02:47 PM Reply	Dunno. Because people suck at it? In my experience, the people most desirous of/ready to change are the ones least likely to realize the ripples that change will create. Change management addresses those ripples before they swamp nearby boats. Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance - Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation. BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
Post #81,162 by orion 2/12/03 12:11:26 PM Reply	Management only needs to be changed when it is bad and bad management can kill a company. Just take a look at Montana Power turning into Touch America. Management, along with Goldman Sachs, decided to turn the company from a Power Utility company into a Telecommunications company without consulting the stockholders or the employees. It now trades for 33 cents on the dollar and lost billions. It went from Bluechip to Dotcom status. Management thought it was a good idea and went with it without telling anyone else or asking permission. My point is that bad management can kill a company slowly by making boneheaded decisions like that. Also trying to keep on good employees is hard if the management is bad. That lawfirm that I worked for has an IT staff of 30 people and in a peroid of 4 years had 35+ people leave or get fired from the IT department. The good talent either walked out the door to find a job elsewhere, or after voicing complaints about management to management (like me) got terminated by something that was made up in a bogus annual review. A big turn-a-round is a good sign of bad management. They got rid of almost everyone except the managers and they still have the same sort of problems there. My point is that bad management can cause key employees to quit or get terminated for bogus reasons. Then they no longer have experienced workers, but newbies trying to find their way around the company. [link\|http://pub75.ezboard.com/bantiiwethey\| New and improved, Chicken Delvits!]
Post #81,165 by tseliot 2/12/03 12:14:02 PM Reply	Not sure what that has to do with my point. "Change management" has nothing to do with recommending whether or not to change. Since change is inevitable, it has to do with managing that change to, among other things, avoid unpleasant side-effects. Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance - Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation. BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
Post #81,226 by Brandioch 2/12/03 4:37:08 PM Reply	We have one woman specifically to handle that. She's the first project manager this company hired. We (this company) need "change management" because, it seems, most people have NO concept of who needs to be informed when there IS a change or how to IMPLEMENT a change or even whether or not a change needs to be TESTED on a NON-PRODUCTION SYSTEM. I am not joking. NONE of this is anything but "common sense" and basic communication / documentation. twiki has been an INCREDIBLE help with this. :)
Post #81,227 by drewk 2/12/03 4:40:00 PM Reply	When did you join my company? We (this company) need "change management" because, it seems, most people have NO concept of who needs to be informed when there IS a change or how to IMPLEMENT a change or even whether or not a change needs to be TESTED on a NON-PRODUCTION SYSTEM. No wait, you don't work here. First we'd have to have a non-production system before we could talk about doing any testing on it. === Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #81,318 by orion 2/12/03 11:11:35 PM Reply	Sorry my mistake I misread it, I must have skimmed it and thought when you said "change management" you meant to change the management, not whatever it was supposed to be. So what is "change management" anyway, dealing with changes? [link\|http://pub75.ezboard.com/bantiiwethey\| New and improved, Chicken Delvits!]
Post #81,344 by Ashton 2/13/03 4:09:50 AM Reply	You've forgotten that entire thread in 'flame' already.
Post #81,537 by orion 2/13/03 8:16:37 PM Reply	I said I couldn't remember it alll and I apparently didn't fully read everything. "Change Management" is a new term to me. I was not sure what it meant besides changing management. [link\|http://pub75.ezboard.com/bantiiwethey\| New and improved, Chicken Delvits!]
Post #81,399 by Arkadiy 2/13/03 11:31:48 AM Reply	"Managing" the process of change Anything from deliberately setting the pace of change to making sure it does not destroy the organization to helping people cope with changes. -- We have only 2 things to worry about: That things will never get back to normal, and that they already have.

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