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Building a Digital Future
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Building a Digital Future

by Lipi Sarkar, Vinnie Bansal
May 2021
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
7h 57m
English
Wiley
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CHAPTER 6Deep Dive: Organizational Change Management for Dynamics 365 and DX

The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.

—Bill Clinton

While writing about change management, it is a remarkably interesting subject and close to my heart. I have come across views spanning the spectrum on change management.

On one side of the spectrum—why should we invest in change management? It is not necessary to include change management while we are digitally transforming our business with Dynamics 365. We have internal capabilities to work on employee training and project management, so let us handle change management internally.

On the other side, change management is an integral part of Digital Transformation and without it the projects are bound to fail. Hence the change management cost has increased the overall digital transformation cost to threefold and the timeline is extended.

If you are on either side of the spectrum and if you would like to do your digital transformation again, then you might possibly know what you would do differently. If you are starting your digital transformation journey today, then this chapter will help you to identify any pitfalls from the beginning, explore the significance of organization change management (OCM), and enable you to plan your digital transformation (DX) journey.

The false economy of not investing in Organizational Change Management always exists in the industry.

The best metaphor I can share about making ...

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