The document discusses how to achieve measurable benefits through organizational change projects. It provides an agenda that will validate the importance of achieving project objectives and benefits, discuss how to make benefits more tangible, consider people-side benefits, and discuss the role of change management in achieving benefits. The document then provides two examples of how a consulting firm helped clients achieve benefits through implementing change management strategies during large IT project implementations.
70% of respondents in PMI Pulse of the Profession state they often/always use change management and risk management and that these practices lead to a higher success rate.As organizations strive to continue for agility in order to leverage ever shifting market conditions, change management and risk management are becoming ever more important core competencies
The most important skill for managing today’s complex program and project management is the ability of the team to align the vision of the project organization structure with the people and project objectives.The managers responding to the survey rated value capture/benefits realization as the topic they were most interested in learning about, after strategic management.