Change becomes a dynamic business capability in which IT is the key enabler.
Digital is all about CHANGE. One of the differentiated business capabilities is AGILITY. Being agile means anticipating likely change and addressing it deftly, keeping business on course and customers satisfied. Digital technology is the business enabler and the powerful force beneath the change. How to leverage IT to enforce the business changeability?
Digital is all about CHANGE. One of the differentiated business capabilities is AGILITY. Being agile means anticipating likely change and addressing it deftly, keeping business on course and customers satisfied. Digital technology is the business enabler and the powerful force beneath the change. How to leverage IT to enforce the business changeability?
IT organization is like the business change engine: Change is a dance between the top management and the affected parts of the organization. Change Management is all about balancing the main elements impacting change such as people (the most important one), strategies, processes/ procedures and IT. And Change Management have to maintain and fix any imbalance in those elements by involving the executives in HR, IT, operations, and taking a structured approach, to make sure all of the management is on board and educated well on the change objectives and how to carry them out effectively. Organizations can make major leaps forward in change capability by involving the entire organization in major change efforts that support key business strategies to drive performance improvement. IT is not only the super glue but also the integrator to weave all important change elements seamlessly and make people change, process change, and technology change sustainable for the long term.
Change becomes a dynamic business capability in which IT is the key enabler: Change becomes a dynamic business capability, not just a one-time initiative or a static process. Continuous change has taken the form of rolling projects with several projects running simultaneously, and across several functional areas that often overlap. IT is at the unique position to oversee business processes, and thus, become an important change organization to improve the organization’s changeability and agility. The logical scenario to manage change life cycle and build change management capability includes the following steps a) develop the business justification about the change and determine demand and estimated pipeline. b) assess the current state of change capability with key elements such as people, process, and technology. c) Define the target change management capability via identifying the change gaps. d) Build change leadership team and source appropriate skills to deliver desired capability (internal / market/partners), also identify change agents within the business; educate champions and establish these as a key element for change management. e) Establish and enable change management team with efficient methodology, tools, products. f) Integrate change management into IT project management life cycles. g) Both reap quick win to demonstrate value, also sustain long-term change effort for business transformation.
Bridging the gap between IT and the business is an important issue about changes: It is important to first understand how much change capability is really required for the effort you are kicking off. Change Management from process management perspective, is also the effort to optimize business complexity. Organizations "become complex," not for their own amusement, they do it to respond to environments more proactively. There are many shades of corporate complexity, some are desired, such as design or connectivity, others are not, such as redundant applications or overly rigid processes, etc. Complexity is the nature of technology, however, often, the advanced technology helps to simplify things and delight customers, not the other way around. The disconnect between business and IT not only causes miscommunication but even worse to fail the business. Bridging the gaps between IT and the business is an important issue about changes, and optimize business processes are the ongoing activities for IT to become a "business solutionary," beyond a service provider. Optimization is not just about fixing things, but leveraging tradeoff to improve business efficiency, flexibility, agility, risk intelligence, and ultimate organizational agility. Dysfunctions and inefficiencies are easier to uncover if there is a good measurement system is in place. Therefore, even technology is often complex in nature, IT needs to be a business simplifier and optimizer to improve business changeability and manageability.
IT is an integral part of the business and, “the business” and “IT” are inextricably linked in the 21st century. From a finance perspective, the better the quality of Change Management program, the more anticipated benefits, and deliverables will be achieved. From digital transformation perspective, a “Change Agent” IT can orchestrate processes, tools, and products that organizations use to effect the transformation from strategy to deployment; from taking change initiatives to building change capability, and from fixing the symptoms to leading innovation and driving digital transformation.
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