by Donna Fitzgerald | July 28, 2010 | 6 Comments
I was just doing some research on change management and I had another light bulb moment. The article I was reading said you needed to make a business case for change, and my immediate gut reaction was “on what planet? Nobody ever makes a change for the sake of change.” In my experience most organizations, [...]
Category: Organizational Development PMO Tags: Change Management
by Donna Fitzgerald | July 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
Just got off the phone with a great client and as usual when I talk with great clients I realized something that I should always have known. The problem with a hierarchy, when it comes to culture change, is that we somehow think the people down in the lower levels of the org chart “aren’t [...]
Category: Agile Organizational Development PMO Tags: Change Management, Corporate Culture
by Donna Fitzgerald | July 12, 2010 | 3 Comments
I recently had two calls both of which centered around the need for real change management. In both cases there was a problem that needed to be solved, and in both cases the original suggestion was to just establish new rules and then enforce them. The only problem was that in many ways the old rules were [...]
Category: PMO Program Management Project Management Tags: Change Management, Storytelling
by Donna Fitzgerald | February 15, 2010 | 5 Comments
One of the topics I had planned to spend more time discussing in 2010 is change management. I found this quote today that I think offers a nice perspective on one element of change management ”It’s called the culture buffer because you have to put effort in to get past it and break through. It’s [...]
Category: PMO Program Management Tags: Change Management
