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New Post 2007/10/30 12:29 nm
User is offline Holger
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Why Change Projects Fail  (Germany)

One of our readers asked for papers on "Why Change fails or why do change projects fail?". Let us start with a discussion here.

A great case study can be found at http://www.cio.de/knowledgecenter//erp805779/index6.html.

What is your opinion / experience etc.?

 
New Post 2007/11/01 05:39 nm
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Re: Why Change Projects Fail  (South Africa)
Modified By ivanoverton  on 2007/11/01 12:42:37 nm)

I posted an article some time ago in the open knowledge base on this topic - click here to view it. My own view is that change often fails for the simple reason that we have not done enough to ensure that it does not fail - we underestimate the effort.

In the project context, I have also become aware of a dynamic that I call "Project Psychosis" - that is, normally reasonable, intelligent people who when serving in a leadership role on a project, seem to lose sight of reality and common sense. You know that you are dealing with Project Psychosis when project resources make comments like "let's compress the training from three weeks to one week"; "if they don't attend the design sessions, then they must just accept how the new system is configured" or "we've sent them 3 e-mails on this already, so it has been properly communicated".

I believe that the point of failure for much change occurs long before people come to deal with the change itself - change often fails even before it happens, in the implementation phase, because of "hygiene factors".

 

 
New Post 2007/11/03 10:34 nm
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Re: Why Change Projects Fail  (United States)
A very timely and thought provoking question because I am presently involved in a failing attemt to change the way the public sees the negative impact from one particular industry on the way they live, work and play, now and in the future. An organization was created for this purpose but the group of individuals who accepted the initial management of the organization have failed to create an organizational plan. Because of this basic management failure (planning and organizing), the organization is unable to marshall the resources it needs to educate the public. This means that the process of promoting change will never reach an effective level with the technical leadership of an experienced person. So I believe you are correct when you ateted that, "...the point of failure...occurs long before people come to deal with the change itself...." Truely and accurate observation.



 
New Post 2007/11/03 10:35 nm
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Re: Why Change Projects Fail  (United States)
 Lajos wrote
A very timely and thought provoking question because I am presently involved in a failing attemt to change the way the public sees the negative impact from one particular industry on the way they live, work and play, now and in the future. An organization was created for this purpose but the group of individuals who accepted the initial management of the organization have failed to create an organizational plan. Because of this basic management failure (planning and organizing), the organization is unable to marshall the resources it needs to educate the public. This means that the process of promoting change will never reach an effective level without the technical leadership of an experienced manager. So I believe you are correct when you ateted that, "...the point of failure...occurs long before people come to deal with the change itself...." Truely and accurate observation.



 
New Post 2007/12/10 10:09 nm
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Re: Why Change Projects Fail  (N/A)

There was an interesting article that came out from the US Army General that couples well with your case study.  In ERP and Business Process Projects, a group of CEOs identified the risk to change projects came from three areas. It indicated that 73% identified cultural and organization factors as the risks (high or very high risk), compared to 41% identifying business and process factors as carrying an equivalent risk, and 27% identifying the same level of risk for technology and system factors only 22%.

We have found that since about the time of the Gen Xer's the mandation of change has delivered minimual success.  The change resistance of the culture and employee workarounds cause most significant change initiatives to fail. 

Laura

 

 

 
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