Change Management (CM) Process

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See: Organizational Restructuring, Mergers, Change Control, Team, Organization, Organizational Change, Acquisition, Business Process, Budget, Information Technology, Project Management.

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(Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_management Retrieved:2021-3-19.
- Change management (sometimes abbreviated as CM) is a collective term for all approaches to prepare, support, and help individuals, teams, and organizations in making organizational change. Drivers of change may include the ongoing evolution of technology, internal reviews of processes, crisis response, customer demand changes, competitive pressure, acquisitions and mergers, and organizational restructuring. ^[1] It includes methods that redirect or redefine the use of resources, business process, budget allocations, or other modes of operation that significantly change a company or organization. Organizational change management (OCM) considers the full organization and what needs to change, while change management may be used solely to refer to how people and teams are affected by such organizational transition. It deals with many different disciplines, from behavioral and social sciences to information technology and business solutions. In a project-management context, the term "change management" may be used as an alternative to change control processes wherein changes to the scope of a project are formally introduced and approved.

https://www.lce.com/Niccolo-Machiavelli-Change-Agent-1272.html
- QUOTE: ... “…there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things…” –-Niccolo Machiavelli, “The Prince”
  Considered by many as the father of modern political science, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote “The Prince” as practical, if not morally ambiguous, advice on what is necessary for a new prince to establish stable rule. In other words, how to create and sustain major change. The following excerpt from his book demonstrates Machiavelli’s awareness of the difficulty of change and the resistance it can provoke.
  “Hence it is that, whenever the opponents of the new order of things have the opportunity to attack it, they will do it with the zeal of partisans, whilst the others defend it but feebly, so that it is dangerous to rely upon the latter.” --Niccolo Machiavelli

(Byodnem, 2005) ⇒ Rune T. Byodnem. (2005). “Organisational Change Management: A Critical Review.” Journal of Change Management, 5(4).
- ABSTRACT: It can be argued that the successful management of change is crucial to any organisation in order to survive and succeed in the present highly competitive and continuously evolving business environment. However, theories and approaches to change management currently available to academics and practitioners are often contradictory, mostly lacking empirical evidence and supported by unchallenged hypotheses concerning the nature of contemporary organisational change management. The purpose of this article is, therefore, to provide a critical review of some of the main theories and approaches to organisational change management as an important first step towards constructing a new framework for managing change. The article concludes with recommendations for further research.