CM Strategy: Project Approach and Plan

Overview

The purpose of this assignment is to prepare your plan on how you will work with your client organization and the approach you will use to inform them about the change management strategy. This assignment gives you an opportunity to organize your notes from your conversations with the client organization (and feedback from your instructor on your project proposal) into a document that clearly explains to the client what they are to expect from you as their change management consultant. The primary audience for your CM Strategy: Project Approach and Plan assignment is your sponsors and your key contact. 

Instructions

Prepare a detailed project approach and plan that explains the change management goals and objectives, approach, and tools you will use, and how you will complete the work. Your assignment should have the following sections. Make sure you support your writing using information from your course readings and other research you have conducted. 

• Change Management Purpose and Discipline.
  • Explain the purpose and discipline of change management and the characteristics of a learning organization.
    • Establish the value of change management in organizations.
    • Provide examples of other organizations that have used change management.
    • Describe what an organization that doesn’t embody characteristics of a learning organization looks like.
    • Describe what a learning organization looks like.
    • Explain the changes that an organization must undergo to evolve into a learning organization.
• Project Goals and Objectives.
  • Define the change management goals and objectives of the project.
    • Explain the goals you want to help your client organization achieve through this project.
    • Align your goals and objectives with characteristics of learning organizations.
• Selected Change Management Model and Tools.
  • Describe the selected model to be used for the change management project.
    • Summarize the change management models discussed in your textbooks:
      • Organization Development Effectiveness Model.
      • Appreciative Inquiry Model.
      • Action Research Model.
      • Senge Five Discipline Model.
    • Select the model, or combination thereof, that you will use to complete your project, and explain why you chose this particular model.
  • Describe the change management tools you will use to assess your stakeholders and the organization’s culture and environment.
    • Identify ways you will gather information about the organization’s culture and environment.
• Project Plan.
  • Outline a plan that conveys how the work will be completed.
    • In Week 2 you provided an initial timeline. Build upon that timeline and update it with meetings that you have scheduled and project deliverables you will be preparing for the client organization.