Project Management And Change Flashcards

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Identify different roles within a change initiative

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Senior mgmt team responsible for project

Project sponsor/board - not day/day, objectives, resources, issues + key bus roles - business lead, partner/supplier, customer

Stakeholders/influences - change during

Change mgmt/governance - leadership prog, project, work stream, sme, team member

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What is the concept of a change delivery plan?

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Develop in parallel with project plan
Can hang change deliverables off project
Use tool kits - waterfall or agile

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3
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What are the different types of levers?

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Levers are elements of change that can be used to support adoption of change
Leverage is where small effort has big effects
Using both provides mutually supporting activity

  1. Emotional - internal pressure, guilt, pride..
  2. Procedural - process to be followed
  3. Structural - implicit in org

Strategies to use:
Carrot - reward
Stick - lack of reward
Burning bridges -when carrot/stick used to often

Environmental - office facilities
B = f (PxS)
Behaviour is function of person and situation

Leadership levers - do/say before/after change
Swift and powerful

OD Toolkit - part of control, structure for maximum effect\
Focus on how it could support change

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What are the concepts of tipping point and critical mass?

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The moment of critical mass is the tipping point - unstoppable momentum
Assumption that behaviour is contagious
Agree criteria to determine whether this is on track to deliver benefits sustainably
Right conditions

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5
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What are vicious and virtuous cycles?

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An unstoppable momentum needs to stay on the right track

These cycles have feedback looks which reinforces the momentum until outside force stops it.

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What are the three reinforcing systems?

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Target simultaneously to create sustainable incentive
R1 - individual personal results - what’s in it for me
R2 - networks of committed people - matters for them so it matters to me
R3 - business results - change because it works

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What are three levels of adoption?

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Compliance - just do it
Identification - with the change and why
Internalisation - impactsignificant, authentic advocates

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