Prosci

The Value of ADKAR

Prosci’s ADKAR^[1] model describes the 5 building blocks required for successful change at an individual level:

Lisa Kempton of Fraser Health and Andrew Horlick of Navigo are co-delivering a pre-conference workshop at the ACMP Regional Conference in Vancouver on Wednesday, September 13th from 1 to 4 pm. The workshop is “How to Build a Change Scorecard for Your Project”.

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.

If you’ve led the implementation of changes in your organization, you will have experienced resistance to change in some shape or form. Here are some of the ways I’ve heard leaders describe that experience:

The Challenge

If you are the change lead for a project, it’s critical that you believe in the change yourself. What should you do if the change you are leading is not the best change for the organization? The prerequisites for the successful implementation of a change are: