I did some interesting reading over the weekend. Two recent reports, one by IBM and one by McKinsey, found that organizations continue to struggle with effectively managing organizational change. Compared to research performed 20 years ago, organizational effectiveness in successful change has improved little and is still less than 50%.
As reliability professionals, a 50% failure rate borders on unconscionable. As leaders in our organization, learning how to successfully lead and manage change is critical. One thing that has happened over the past 20 years is that there is significant information, tools, and research related to organizational change management. Many, if not most, organizations are more cognizant of the people issues related to change. What they are not getting better at is application. This was the primary driver in focusing this year’s post-conference workshop on how to change. On Thursday, October 21, the workshop “Real World Change Management: Putting Theory to Practice” will give you a chance to develop and advance your change management skills. Based upon the Prosci change management methodology, the workshop uses real-world examples and tools to evaluate your current change efforts, quantify risks, and develop a change management strategy. We had a great workshop last year on change management theory. I hope you will join me this year as we get our hands dirty.
Scott Franklin, CMRP
Life Cycle Engineering
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