E2 Managing Change Flashcards

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Critical Path Analysis

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Ids the activities that cannot overrun

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PERT

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Allows for contingency to be added

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3
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Breakdown structures

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Establishes authority & responsibility

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4
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Resource Histogram

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Helps with capacity planning

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5
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External triggers for change

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Indirect (PEST)

External (Porters 5 Forces)

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Internal triggers for change

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Philosophy
Reorganisation
Personnel
Conditions
Technology
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Types of organisational change

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Evolution - Incremental/Transformation
Adaptation - Incremental/Realignment
Revolution - Big Bang/Transformational
Reconstruction - Big Bang/Realignment

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8
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Lewin’s three stage model

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Unfreeze
Change
Refreeze

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9
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Beer & Nohria

Theory E strategy

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Shareholder is the main concern
Incentives
Layoffs
Downsizing
Restructuring
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10
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Beer & Nohria

Theory O strategy

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Softer approach

Culture adjustment
Organisational learning

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11
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Resistance to change

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Job factors
Social factors
Personal factors

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12
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Resistance to change

Job factors

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Technological unemployment
Changes to workings conditions
Demotion or reduced pay

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Resistance to change

Personal factors

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Implied criticism of current working method
Feel less valued
Work becomes monotonous

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14
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Resistance to change

Social factors

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Break up of social environment
Personal dislike of people implementing change
Lack of consultation

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Managing resistance

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Participation
Educating & Communicating
Power/Coercion
Facilitation & Support
Manipulation and Co-optation
Negotiation
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16
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Change adept organisations - Kanter

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Imagination to Innovate
Professionalism to Perform
Openness to Collaborate

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17
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Project constraints

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Time
Cost
Quality

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18
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Five project mgmt process areas

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Initiation
Planning
Execution
Controlling
Completion
19
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Types of feasibility

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Technical - can it be done?
Social - does it fit with current ops
Ecological - how does it affect enviro
Economy - is it worth it?

20
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Risk
Likelihood - low
Impact - low

21
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Risk
Likelihood - low
Impact - high

22
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Risk
Likelihood - high
Impact - low

23
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Risk
Likelihood - high
Impact - high

24
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Project Initiation Document (PID)

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Purpose statement
Scope statement
Deliverables
Cost & time estimates
Objectives
Stakeholders
Chain of command
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Configuration management
To track product changes and versions
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WBS - Work breakdown structure
Breaks tasks into manageable pieces
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WO - Works packages & | SOW - Statements of work
Specifies work done for each activity and who will do it
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CBS - Cost breakdown structure
To cost each element
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PBS - Product breakdown structure
Identifies the product purchases required for each activity
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CPA EET? LET?
Earliest event time | Latest event time
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PMBOK?
``` Project Management Body Of Knowledge ```
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PMBOK 9 Areas
``` Integration Scope Time Cost Quality Human Resource Communication Risk Procurement ```
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Stakeholder hierarchy
``` Project sponsor - provides resources Project owner - interested in end result Project customer - the end user Project manager - responsible for output Project team - responsible for achieving tasks ```
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Lifecycle of project teams
``` Forming Storming Norming Performing Dorming ```
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Which technique used for planning the time of a project, is used to measure how far the project has progressed and how far it has to run?
Milestone
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``` Scope of a project is determined at which stage? Planning Initiation Growth Control ```
Initiation
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Conformance Management
Focuses on: Inspection Quality Control Quality Assurance
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Kotter and Schlesinger | Education and communication
Where there is a lack of or inaccurate information and analysis
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Kotter and Schlesinger | Participation and involvement
Initiators don't have all information to design change, where others have power to resist
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Kotter and Schlesinger | Facilitation and support
Where resistance comes from adjusted problems
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Kotter and Schlesinger | Negotiation and agreement
Where one group will lose out and has power to resist
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Kotter and Schlesinger | Manipulation and co-optation
Where other tactics won't work or are too costly
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Kotter and Schlesinger | Explicit and implicit coercion
Where speed is essential and the change initiators posses considerable power