Managing Change

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|Managing Projects and Change |

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Contents

Question 1 3

Executive Summary 3

Introduction 3

Preparation/Defining Phase 3

Why Is Project Preparation Important? 4

Project Planning 5

Evaluation Scope and Objectives 7

Objectives of the evaluation: 7

Findings 7

Reflections 8

Question 3 8

What necessitated the Change 8

The Change Approach 9

The Change process followed by the CFO 10

Output of the Intervention 10

What could have been done differently? 11

List of References 13

Question 1

Executive Summary

This report presents the findings and conclusions of an end of project evaluation for the Budget Dataware house project, a project funded mainly by the Budget Management Section, with contribution from the Financial Systems Directorate.

The project under evaluation was initiated in October 2008 to implement a system that will enable the departments to view the captured Budget on the transversal systems online and to be able to update and make...