Change management is key to successful shared services and outsourcing implementations. Following a few simple rules can help make change management more predictable and manageable. These rules include investing in change management, making a detailed plan, listening to stakeholders, using the right messengers to communicate effectively in multiple ways, and reinforcing messages over time to help ensure adoption. Effective change results require communication through multiple channels over an extended period.
1. Change management is often cited as the biggest
impediment to successful shared services
and outsourcing implementation. But it is
manageable and predictable, if you follow a few
simple rules.
Sourcing Changes Deborah Kops lays it out...
Shared Services
& Outsourcing
Change Management:
A visual guide
to avoid classic
change management
mistakes
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...optimum 10-15%
of budget on change
management
...percieved failure rate
10
15%
50
70%
...months to expand
18
...months to adopt
6 chance to get
it right
1
1...overarching
implementation
plan is critical
Day 1
...initiatives starts
program day 1
Change
management
and outsourcing
change by the
numbers
息 Deborah Kops, Sourcing Chnage
1...organisation to
speak with one voice
1.
INVEST
IN
CHANGE
2.
MAKE
A
PLAN
4.
COMMUNICATE
EFFECTIVELY
7.
STAY
THE
COURSE
8.
ONE
CHANCE
TO GET
IT RIGHT
...planning eliminates 90%
of the guesswork
90%most change efforts spend
only 5% on employee
concerns
5% 3.
LISTEN TO
YOUR
SHAREHOLDER
5.
USE THE
RIGHT
MESSENGERS
6.
REINFORCE
17...years is average
tenure of affected staff
5...maximum attributes to
change at once is 5
Ten+...potential
stakeholder groups
...work generations5 3...components
of initial messaging
in 4 phases
7x7 ...effective change results
from communicating
7 times/7 ways
2...2 most important
messengers are sponsors
and managers
Sponsors
Managers
...reinforcement of behaviour
3 times more powerful than
1 announcement
12...months to embrace
01 02 03
04 05 06
07
10 11 12
08 09
24/7
...no 2 organisations change
the same way
2
...change programs
in effect 24/7 infinite
number of opinions