Effective change management provides organizations with a mechanism whereby value is added and realized through reduced costs. Cost reductions are realized because change is implemented more effectively, causes fewer disruptions, and customer confidence is raised.
The purpose of this webinar is to give a clear picture of change management and its role in the organization. This webinar will explain the importance of change management, give an overview of how it works, and how it creates and adds value to the organization.
Additionally, this webinar seeks to demonstrate the extent to which change management can enhance organizational objectives and goals, how properly implemented change management enables the furtherance of the organizational strategy, and how it contributes to organizational planning.
This webinar will explain how change management is an essential part of a holistic, results-driven approach that reflects business initiatives. It also seeks to show the inter-relatedness between change management and varied business activities as well as the value-add it brings by enabling organizations to respond to needed business changes.
Areas covered:
1. Purpose, Objectives and Definitions
2. Value to the business
3. Change Authorities
4. Strategic-tactical-operational change
- 7 R’s of change management
5. Change processes, Roles, Activities, Interfaces
6. Change Management is the authority
- Service Asset & Configuration Management (SACM) works to assist in administering change
- Configuration Management is key
- Release & Deployment Management (RDM) executes change
7. RDM is the operational side of change
8. Assessment and Evaluation occurs at multiple points and levels
9. Change Advisory Board
10. Interfaces (Change is multi-faceted and multidisciplinary)
- Interrelatedness of change management
11. Measuring change from different perspectives
12. Challenges and Summary
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1. Webinar - Effective Change Management
With - Victor Foster
ITIL Expert
MARCH 28th, 2018
11:00 AM ET | 04:00 PM UTC
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About Invensis Learning
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Housekeeping
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screen. These will be answered during the Q&A session towards the end.
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Speaker Profile
Victor Foster
ITIL Expert
Victor Foster is an accredited ITIL Expert and Consultant with
8 years of training experience from SharePoint, and Incident
Management systems, to ITIL courses. He has experience
with technical writing of user guides for various software
systems used by the DoD and other government agencies. He
has co-authored the cyber-security awareness training
program policies (FCC) and FISMA compliance and provided
support for interagency training sponsored by DoD-IG.
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Effective Change Management
Purpose:
Our discussion today aims to describe what qualifies as effective change management and how it
contributes and adds value to the organization.
There is a tendency to view change management solely as being within the purview of the IT
department.
Objectives:
The objective of this discussion is therefore to help organizations understand how expanding the
scope of change management within organizations can assist in more fully benefiting from the utility
that change management brings.
Additionally, to relate how it can enable an organization to more effectively leverage the change
management process to further the organizational objectives.
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Change Management is a process within the service transition phase
of the service lifecycle
Transition Planning & Support (TPS)
Service validation & Testing (SVT)
Change Evaluation
Release & Deployment Management
Change Management
Service Asset & Configuration Management
Knowledge Management
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Effective Change Management
Service Strategies
Strategies, Policies,
Standards
Service Design
Plans to create and
modify services and
service management
Processes
Service Transition
Manage the transition of a
new or changed service
and / or service
management process into
production
Service Operation
Day-to-day operations of
services and service
management processes
Continual Service Improvement
Activities are embedded in the service lifecycle
Output
Output
Output
Feedback lessons
learned for
Improvement
Feedback lessons
learned for
Improvement
Feedback lessons
learned for
Improvement
Feedback lessons
learned for
Improvement
Feedback lessons
learned for
Improvement
ITIL Creates a continual feedback loop
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Definitions
Change Management: The process responsible for controlling the lifecycle of all changes. The main
objective is to enable implementation of beneficial changes, with minimum disruption to IT services.
Service Change: The addition, modification or removal of authorized, planned or supported service or
service component (Configuration Item) and its associated documentation.
Request for Change: A formal proposal for a change to be made.
Standard Change: A pre-authorized change that is low risk, routine and follows a documented work
procedure.
Emergency Change: A change that must be evaluated, assessed, and either rejected or
implemented as quickly as possible. This is the highest priory change defined in an organization.
Normal Change: Changes that must follow the complete change management process.
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Definitions (Cont’d)
Change Proposal: Describes a high level description of a proposed major change, such as the
introduction of a new service or a substantial change to an existing service. For example, a request to
add a new module to an existing SAP. Submitted to change management before chartering to identify
resources conflicts, assess risks, etc.
Change Evaluation: The process for managing the risks associated with major changes to reduce
the chances of failure. Initiated and controlled by the Change Manager. This process provides a
structured method for assessing a change with respect to the likely impact on the business, existing or
proposed services, and the current and potential future IT infrastructure.
Change Manager: A facilitator responsible for the overall change management process.
Change Advisory Board (CAB): A circumstance specific advisory committee chaired by the change
manager which assesses, evaluates and either approves or rejects the change.
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Value to the Business
Effective Change Management means reliability and supports business continuity by:
Minimizing risk to the business
Minimizing the impact of change to operations (reduces downtime)
Reduces failed changes (rework, delays, defects) and adverse impacts on quality of service
Increases staff productivity
Improves project ROI (improved cost assessments)
Manages risk by improving risk assessments
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Levels of Change
Changes can take place at three different levels within an organization:
Strategic, Tactical, and Operational.
Strategic or business changes speak to changes in the business direction and typically originate in
Service Portfolio Management. A Change Proposal is chartered as the result of an approved
business case. It may also originate in program or project management.
Service or tactical changes are proactive in nature and refer to modifications to new or existing
services that result from a change in strategic direction. However, not all tactical service changes are
connected to a strategic change.
Operational changes are driven by technology, security upgrades, operating system upgrades, etc.
They are often implemented as corrective actions but may flow down to the operational level due to a
service change requirement.
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The 7 Rs of Change Management
A starting point for assessing and evaluating the impact, risks and benefits of changes.
1. Who RAISED the change?
2. What is the REASON for the change? WHY?
3. What is the RETURN required from the change? $
4. What are the RISKS involved in the change?
5. What RESOURCES are required to deliver the change?
6. Who is RESPONSIBLE to build, test and implement the change?
7. What is the RELATIONSHIP between this change and other changes?
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Change Management Process, Roles, Activities and Interfaces
Review and close
change record
Create RFC
Record RFC
Review RFC
Assess and
evaluate change
Authorize change
build test
Coordinate change
build and test
Authorize change
deployment
Coordinate change
deployment
UpdateinformationinCMS
Work flows
Work flows
Work flows
Requested
Ready for evaluation
Ready for decision
Authorized
Created
Scheduled
Implemented
Closed
Role
Change
initiator
Change
management
Change
management
Change
management
Change
authority
Change
management
Change
authority
Change
management
Rejected
Activities assigned to the
Role “change management”
May be carried out by a Change
practitioner, a change authority or the
change Management process owner,
Depending on organizational design
Change
proposal
(optional)
Activities to plan, create
And deploy releases are part
of the release and
deployment management
process
Change management
Change authority
Change initiator
Rejected
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Change Management Process, Roles, Activities and Interfaces. Cont’d
Transition planning and support ensures coordinated overall approach to managing service
transitions
Business change management must coordinate with change management to understand impacts to
IT service components
Program or project management must work in partnership to align the processes and people
involved in service change initiatives
Organizational and stakeholder change management is separate in some organizations and part
of change management in others. Organizational aspects of change must be properly considered with
the people carrying out this work
Sourcing and Partnering are subject to change management practices and principles
Service asset and configuration management provides reliable, quick and easy access to accurate
configuration information to enable stakeholders and staff to assess the impact of proposed changes
(CMS)
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Change Management is the Authority
The purpose of the change management process is to control the lifecycle of all changes, enabling
beneficial changes to be made with minimum disruption to IT Services.
Change management leverages the Configuration Management System (CMS) as a tool to track the
lifecycle of configuration items.
Service Asset and Configuration Management (SACM) could be said to be the Administrative aspect of
change management. Its activities include:
Management & Planning
Configuration Identification
Configuration Control (Mechanisms in place to ensure up-to-date information is captured so logical
and physical information match.)
Status Accounting & Reporting
Verification & Audit
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Change Management is the Authority Cont’d
Release and Deployment Management (RDM) can be said to be the operational side of change
management. Recall from the process flow chart we saw earlier that RDM is initiated when change
management approves a change.
RDM goes through four phases:
Change management will use entry and exit criteria for each phase as a type of quality check.
Release & Deployment Planning Release Build & Test
Review & Close (PIR) Deployment/Transfer/Retirement
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Change Evaluation and Assessment
Change Evaluation has four sub-processes:
Evaluation prior to planning
Evaluation prior to the build
Evaluation prior to deployment
Evaluation after deployment
Recall the RDM quality gates (exit and entry criteria). Change Evaluation serves as a decision point on
whether to move forward to the next phase, or even a go no go to continue or abandon a change.
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Measuring Change
In order to achieve effective change management, you need to have Critical Success Factors (CSFs). Critical success
factors are simply a list of things that must happen for a process or service to be successful. CSFs help you to understand
the whys of change management:
Why do change management?
What are our customers’ needs?
What do we want to achieve?
You might want to know why:
With respect to changes, what do our customers complain about?
Are we meeting quality and time requirements? How do we know?
Do we have the capabilities to meet future business initiatives?
CSFs need to be succinct and expressed in easy to understand language. For example,
Reduce negative impact (value).
Increase the number and rate of successful changes (effectiveness).
Consistently and effectively implement change in a way the reduces risk.
Base your CSFs on what is important to the business. This will help to focus on what’s important.
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Summary
This scope of this discussion has purposely designed to not follow the IT-centric approach of discussing
change management. It was necessary to drill down into some of those aspects in order to demonstrate
how it links back to strategy. In order to achieve effective change management, it is important that all the
various actors and stakeholders understand the part they can play in making change as effective as
possible throughout the organization. To demonstrate this, we have tried to show the diverse touch points.
When you implement IT change management, you are implementing a type of organizational change
management in that it touches all areas of the organization. Effective change management is
understanding how change management flows downwards from the strategic (business requirements)
outlook of the organization and then upwards, and is a process that enables the constant alignment and
realignment of services to continually meet business outcomes.
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Change Management Challenges
Managing stakeholder involvement
Properly assigning roles and responsibilities
Balancing control and bureaucracy
Establishing a culture of change
Emphasizing the importance of remediation planning
Knowing what to measure
Managing multiple simultaneous changes
Updating documentation to align with processes
Updating the CMS to ensure we are working with the most current and relevant information
Managing multiple teams
And more…..
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