“Today’s business environment requires bold programs to drive high performance along three dimensions: change management, leadership and culture.”
Peter Cheese and Yaarit Silverstone.
Topic: Managing Change in Global IT Projects and Organizations
1. Introduction
2. Background Information – The Emergence of Change Management
3. Organizational Change
4. Global Organizations and Change
5. The Change Management Process
6. Managing Change on International Projects
7. The Cross-Cultural Management Model
8. Developing a Leadership Approach for Today’s Global Business
9. Communication and Collaboration
10. Change Management Challenges for the Global IT Organization
11. Trends in Change Management
12. Conclusion
Change management
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Change management is an approach to transitioning individuals, teams, and organizations to a desired future state.[1] In a project management context, change management may refer to a project management process wherein changes to the scope of a project are formally introduced and approved.[2] or the definition of change management defined on this page [3]
Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 1960s 1.2 1980s 1.3 1990s 1.4 2000s 1.5 2010s 2 Approach 2.1 Reasons for change 2.2 Choosing what changes to implement 2.3 Managing the change process 2.4 Examples 3 See also 4 References
History[edit] 1960s[edit] Everett Rogers wrote the book Diffusion of Innovations in 1962. There would be five editions of the book through 2003, during which time the statistical analysis of how people adopt new ideas and technology would be documented over 5000 times. The scientific study of hybrid corn seed adoption led to the commonly known groupings of types of people: Innovators, Early Adopters, Early Majority, Late Majority and Laggards. In 1969, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross wrote the