Change management is a systematic process for dealing with organizational change, including transitions in goals, processes, or technologies. It aims to ensure changes reach their intended outcomes with minimal disruption. Popular change management models provide principles to guide businesses through change without disrupting operations or reducing employee satisfaction. Effective change management requires frequent communication, choosing the right technologies to support change, and commitment to decisions despite initial challenges.

1. Definition:
Change management is a systematic
approach to dealing with the transition or
transformation of an organization's goals,
processes or technologies.

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Change management
Change management can be described as a process that
systematically deals with the transition or transformation of
an organization's goals, processes or technologies to ensure
the transition or transformation reaches its intended
outcomes.

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Purpose of change
management
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.

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Change-management
models
There are many change-management models that provide
guiding principles and help businesses of all sizes respond to
change without disrupting business or making employees
unhappy.

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Example
. Examples of popular change-management models include
the ADKAR model, Bridges' Transition Model, Katter's 8-
Step Process, Levin's change-management model and
McKinsey 7S.

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1. Approach Change As A
Gradual Process
“Change management is most effective when approached as a
gradual process that involves frequent interactions to reshape
employee behaviors and opinions,”

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2. Make Communication Your Top
Priority
Lack of communication is one of the most prevalent
reasons for change-management failure.

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Continue…..
On the one hand, managers in small companies tend to wait
too long to communicate important news about change,
keeping employees in the dark and allowing rumors to
spread.
On the other hand, they sometimes overwhelm employees
with information they don’t need — at least not immediately
— eventually causing employees to stop paying attention.

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3. Encourage Technology Use
Technology can improve communication, provide
greater visibility, automate time-consuming business
processes, reduce business costs, increase productivity
and efficiency and much more. Tools like Gmail, Trellis,
Slack and others are intuitive yet very effective in
helping small businesses deal with change.

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4. Choose The Right
Technology
Just because there are many great tools to choose from
doesn’t mean they are all equally suitable. Small businesses
can’t afford to invest in the wrong technology, so it’s
important to conduct a comprehensive requirements
assessment before making the final decision.

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5. Stand Behind Your
Decisions
There is a good reason to go digital. There is a good reason to
modernize older systems. Don’t overreact to initial friction
when implementing new technology. Allow for a bonding
time between the manual, paper-based, uninformed part of
your business and the automated, digital, informed part.

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