best practices

Seventy-two percent of the participants in Prosci’s 2016 Best Practices in Change Management Study indicated they expected a slight or significant increase in the volume of change in their organizations over the next two years. With the increasing volume of change, many organizations are approaching the point of change saturation. Change saturation occurs when the number of changes being implemented exceeds the capacity of the individuals in an organization to effectively adopt and use those changes.

Prosci’s 10th Best Practices Study is now open for input. The study marks a major milestone for the change management discipline – twenty years of Prosci change management research. This study will produce the largest body of knowledge in the field and provide insights from thousands of change practitioners and leaders.

Agile is a term used to describe a very different way of managing IT projects. In 2001, a group of 17 IT professionals came together to discuss the need for an alternative to cumbersome software development processes. They were concerned that the traditional approach to managing software development projects was failing far too often and believed there had to be a better way. An outcome of the meeting was the Agile Manifesto, which describes 4 important values that are as relevant today as they were then.

The application of a structured approach is essential to any change management program. As a change management professional who has experience with a wide range of methodologies, I wasn’t surprised to see that the use of an established, customizable and scalable methodology was identified as a contributor to success in Prosci’s Best Practices in Change Management Report (read about the #1 contributor in another blog post).

Prosci - sound familiar? Prosci is a 20-year leader in providing change management research, methodologies, tools, and training programs. In fact, 80% of Fortune 100 organizations are Prosci customers.