The budget's been approved for your big IT project. To be successful, it will take much more than getting the requirements right, or getting the programming right, or delivering on time. You also need to prepare everyone for the personal changes that accompany the new system. It’s less costly to catch rollout resistance early.

One CIO told me that his organization was implementing a 'simple' change. This change was so simple that no programming would be required. In fact, they were only going to change one field in one data base. No big deal! Turns out, the one field they were changing was 'number of weeks per paycheck', and the number was going up from one to two. This meant that thousands of employees who planned their personal budgets around weekly paychecks were now going to get bi-weekly paychecks. This affected everyone in the company. From a programming standpoint, this was a minor change. From an organizational change standpoint, this was a major change!

Sheila Cox
Senior Consultant
Set up a call today with Sheila Cox to discuss how your change management strategy can make the difference between project success and failure.
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So Much Change, So What?

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Implementation Risk Analysis

Navigating change is not easy. Begin with an Implementation Risk Analysis to determine how well positioned you are to roll out the big IT project you're about to undertake. The results of Cutter's assessment will help you determine if you’ve got the right sponsors (the people who manage those who'll be most effected by the changes) and help you understand how your past implementation experience will impact this new system. Contact us for more information.

Sheila Cox

For your project to be accepted upon rollout, you need group buy-in early in the process. In her workshop for IT leaders on how navigating organizational change, Cutter Senior Consultant Sheila Q. Cox equips business and technology leaders with the insight, perspective, and tools to help users deal with the human side of IT-driven change.