The Organizational Master Plan Handbook

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Change Management as Part of the Organizational Master Plan

Change management approaches may sound like common sense but, too often, common sense is not commonly practiced.

—H. James Harrington

Only the very simplest parts of the Organizational Master Plan project will be successful without being accompanied by a very effective organizational change management process. A typical Organizational Master Plan project will impact your processes, procedures, staff, organizational structure, and the culture of the organization, putting a great deal of stress on your people. This impact will generate a lot of resistance to the project.

To offset the many problems that occur if the affected employees are not made part of the project before it ...