Project Management and Change Management: Working Together for Effective Organizational Change

Change Management Optimizing Organizational Change

Anyone in a leadership position is well aware that any type of change within their organization is never easy but is a normal part of progress; such change is especially commonplace in the dynamic nature of the current health care landscape. Despite that knowledge, how best to manage change is often unclear and/or ill-defined. This is particularly troublesome when one considers that a given cha...

Measuring Change Requests to support effective project management practices

Some of the major reasons for software project failures relay in the area of the management of project objectives and requirements. In the actual “ever changing world”, software requirements are subjected to continuous changes that might claim revisions of the allocated resources. Estimating effort, duration and costs from stable requirements is a difficult task, but estimating from “moving” re...

Change Management and Change Process Model for the Iranian Construction Industry

Changes are inevitable in construction projects. They could lead to disruptive impacts on the quality, schedule and budget of projects. Identifying changes and anticipating their consequences can help project teams mitigate these negative impacts. As a result, a change process model has been defined to improve this procedure. At first the present paper the defines some of the key terms in this ...

Organizational Change and Customer Relationship Management Success

The shift from a product-oriented business strategy to a customer-focused one has been a major change agent in companies recently. Many companies have invested heavily in technologies enabling a customer-focused relationship marketing strategy. However, there are mixed results as to how successful firms have been in implementing customer relationship management systems. The challenge of managin...

Organizational Mindfulness: Safety Culture and Change Management