Original Source:  bizfluent 

“All businesses face change at some point in their life cycle. This may be thrust upon them by outside factors such as competition, globalization, political changes or rapid technological progress. Or, the business may seek change proactively through a merger, improving business procedures or reforming the product offering. Whatever the reason, managing change is a multi-disciplinary process. There’s no way to pull the various strands together without some clear tools and techniques in place to drive the change implementation forward

What is Change Management?

Change management describes the planned management of change, taking the business from its current state to a target state. Its main task is to make order out of chaos. Good change management techniques lead the business through a potentially disruptive process in a planned, controlled and stabilized manner so the risks associated with change are ring-fenced and minimized.

There are multiple stages in the change management process, and those stages may differ from project to project and organization to organization. The common factor is structure. Whatever approach you take, change management models always involve the systematic application of tools to drive the business from where it is now (point A) to where it needs to be (point B). Breaking it down, change management is:

Limited in time.

Strictly targeted toward a very specific destination.

Controlled “from above” by senior leaders (often consultants are called in).

Proactively managed, such that with affected individuals are prepared from the beginning to deal with the negative consequences of change such as fear, anxiety and insecurity.

Designed to result in long-term changes for the business…”

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Contributors: Open Source
Categories: Industry Articles, SIG U Resource
SRC Type: Change Management, Talent Management