This document provides guidance for a group assignment on developing a change management strategy. It outlines the submission requirements, which include separate parts for an executive summary/business case and the change management strategy itself. Guidelines are given for each part, focusing on identifying stakeholders, assessing readiness, planning engagement, execution, transition, and sustaining the change. Key elements to address include the need for change, scope, change approach, communication strategy, adoption measurement, and handling obstacles. Students are directed to formulation plans for preparing, mobilizing, and managing the transition, while accounting for flexibility and measuring benefits realization.

1. EPM 2103
Project Health &
Change
Management
Change Management Strategy:
Group Assignment

2. Change Management Strategy
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3. Change Management Strategy

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Groups will submit each part in its own drop box

5. Resources
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6. Submission requirements
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7. Part One Executive Summary and Business Case
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One MS Word document
Submit in Dropbox

8. Part Two: Change Management Strategy
One MS Word document
Submit in Dropbox

9. As always…..Professionalism
Language
Presentation
Content
Part Two: Change Management Strategy

11. Part One Executive Summary and Business Case – Assistance
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Points to help you get started……..

12. Part 2 - Change life cycle – questions to get you
started
Formulate the change
Identify and clarify need for change
Assess readiness for change
Outline any obstacles that may come up, is the organization ready for change why/evidence
Scope of change
Who is impacted, what in the organization is impacted
Plan change
Define the change approach
What model are you going to use? Align to change and culture
Plan stakeholder engagement
Stakeholders - what does your change team look like, roles/responsibilities
How is going to be impacted – are they going to be supportive/non supportive – how are you going to engage then
Plan transition and integration
How is this change going to be executed, what are the time lines, integration, communication strategy
Remember in plan to ensure that there is flexibility and you are accounting for obstacles
How is this going to be integrated in organization

13. Implement change
o Preparing the organization for the change
o Define who in the organization is impacted – what support activities required
o Mobilizing stakeholders
o Communication strategy - How will you mobilize the stakeholders, who is important, who
may resist and how will you deal with it
o Deliver project outputs
Manage Transition
o Transition outputs to business
o How will you transition to business, are results being delivered
o What new capabilities need to be integrated into business
o Measure adoption rate and outcome/benefits
o How are you going to measure the intended change – adoption rate, KPI’s
o What performance results do you want to achieve?
o When are you going to measure them?
o Adjust plan to address discrepancies
o What is the plan when there are obstacles? Based on identified obstacles create a
strategy for the obstacles identified
Sustain change
o Ongoing communication, consultation, and representation
o Once implemented – how are you going to reinforce the communication – timelines,
who, when
o Conduct sensemaking activities
o How will you ensure to engage ongoing conversation and implement in social practices
o Measure benefits realization
o Measure success – what does sustained success look like? How will you measure it
HINT:
Consider
Who will it impact
What is the impact
How (execution of the plan)
Timelines – the when, how long