Inveontory Control- Change Management

Role of Change Management in an Organization

Change management plays an important role in any organization since the task of managing change is not an easy one. When we say managing change we mean to say that making changes in a planned and systemic fashion. With reference to the IT projects we can say the change in the versions of a project and managing these versions properly. Changes in the organization or a project can be initiated from within the organization or externally. For example a product that is popular among the customers may undergo a change in design based on the triggering factor like a competitive product from some other manufacturer. This is an example of external factor that triggers a change within the organization. How the organization responds to these changes is what that is more concerned. Managing these changes come under change management. Reactive and proactive responses to these changes are possible from an organization.

An area of change that needs attention is selected and certain models, methods, techniques and tools are used for making these changes that are necessary for the organization.

When there is a process in an organization it is not an easy task to make changes to this process immediately. Sometimes a single organization may have varied business entities and changes in an entity may be reflected in another entity. In such organizations changes are not so easy. There are different types of organizations which have many branches across the world with varied cultures. Implementing a change in such organizations is a task by itself.

The change process can be thought of a process which stops the current process, makes the necessary changes to the current process and the run the new process. It is easy said than implemented. Stopping a current process in some industry is fatal for that organization. Hence it has to be done in steps which have the minimal effect in the process. These changes can not take place for a...