Change management
Develop Infrastructure & Operations Policies and Procedures
Blueprint: Infrastructure & Operations
IT policies are written, approved, signed – and forgotten for years because no one has time to maintain or enforce them. Create effective policies for Infrastructure & Operations that are maintainable, reasonable, measurable, auditable, and enforceable.
Change Management Standard Operating Procedure
Templates And Policies: Infrastructure & Operations
This template is designed to give organizations a defined set of standards and guidelines to conduct their change management practice effectively.
Change Management Policy
Templates And Policies: Infrastructure & Operations
Use this policy template to define and support your organization's change management program.
Staff the PMO for Resilience
Blueprint: Project & Portfolio Management
Accountability is something that is not clearly defined for many activities that flow through the PMO. Business leaders, project workers, and PMs are rarely as aligned as they need to be. This blueprint will help you determine your PMO staffing needs and create meaningful job descriptions.
Change Manager
Job Description: Infrastructure & Operations
The Change Manager ensures that all changes are managed in a controlled manner, including standard changes and emergency maintenance relating to business processes, applications, and infrastructure.
Optimize IT Change Management
Blueprint: Infrastructure & Operations
Infrastructure and application change occur constantly, driven by changing business needs, requests for new functionality, operational releases and patches, and resolution of incidents or problems. IT managers need to follow a standard information technology change management best practice to...
Change Management Roadmap Tool
Tool: Infrastructure & Operations
This tool is designed to help organizations plan the implementation of their standardized change management practice.
Change Management
Academy Course: Infrastructure & Operations
Let your battle with change-related incidents begin!This course makes up part of the Infrastructure & Operations Certificate.
Change Management Maturity Assessment Tool
Tool: Infrastructure & Operations
This tool is designed to help organizations assess the maturity of their change management practice and identify gaps in processes.
Change Management Metrics Tool
Tool: Infrastructure & Operations
This tool is designed to help organizations record and track key metrics related to change management.
Optimize IT Change Management – Executive Brief
Note: Infrastructure & Operations
The goal of a quality change management program should be to reduce risk incurred through changes. Creating standardized, repeatable processes is the key to achieving that goal.
Change Management Process Library
Templates And Policies: Infrastructure & Operations
This template is designed to provide an example of pre-approved, normal, expedited, and emergency change workflows that make up the change management process.
Top change management tips for ERP implementation success
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Top change management tips for ERP implementation success.
The Association of Change Management Professionals defines change management as "the practice of applying a structured approach to transition an organization from a current state to a future state to achieve expected benefits."
Small Enterprise Change Management Maturity Tool
Tool: Change & Release Management
Changes to IT applications (or infrastructure) must be managed properly to avoid disrupting the normal operation of the company. Use this tool to assess and enhance the maturity of your current IT change management process.
Automation of the change management process. For each dimension, this tool identifies areas of improvement and provides recommendations to improve existing issues..
Build a Business Case to Improve Change Management Quick Guide
Templates And Policies: Infrastructure & Operations
This quick guide is designed to help you build a business case to implement a change management process.
As organizations grow, change management (CM) helps gain and maintain control of configuration items, which assists with incident root-cause analysis, reduces the incidence of change-related incidents, and stabilizes the infrastructure. However, CM is a bureaucratic control process and is often criticized for slowing down the pace of operations.
Small Enterprise Change Management Policy
Templates And Policies: Templates & Policies
The small enterprise change management policy properly manages how to effectively change management requirements and create a solid policy.
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Navigate the EMV Liability Shift
Blueprint: Industry Coverage
Now is the time to convert to an EMV-compliant POS system because your fraud exposure risk is rising by 78% from 2015 to 2016, liability is shifting towards the merchant from the acquirer, customer experience is affected, and contactless payments are coming into play. EMV is here to stay. You...
Organizational Change Management Capabilities Assessment
Tool: CIO
The Organizational Change Management Capabilities Assessment is designed to evaluate your current capabilities, opportunities, and challenges around managing organizational change.
Get Started With IT Project Portfolio Management
Blueprint: Project & Portfolio Management
Develop foundational practices in each of the following areas: portfolio management, project management, and organizational change management.
Organizational Change Management Triage Tool
Tool: Project & Portfolio Management
Use this tool as part of your ongoing project processes to gauge the viability and the organizational change management efforts required for a project.
Master Organizational Change Management Practices
Blueprint: CIO
Completed projects aren’t necessarily successful projects. Projects are justified because they will make the organization money, save money, or make stakeholders or customers happier, etc. Without managing organizational change, projects may get done but fail to achieve the intended benefits...
Organizational Change Management
Academy Course: CIO
Embrace (the accountability for) change.This course makes up part of the PPM & Projects Certificate.
Running Change Management During a Crisis
Note: Infrastructure & Operations
IT changes are inevitable, even in a crisis mode. Service Desk and IT operations will feel overburdened, but when it comes to change management, skipping steps for assessment and approval can lead to more change-related incidents. With a crisis such as COVID-19 dominating the news and forcing...
The importance of change management doesn’t go away during a crisis. DO NOT SKIP STEPS. Take the time to make sure all the steps of your change management process are still performed to the best of your ability. If you do not have a current workflow in place, take a look at our template, and adapt it to your organization.
Decide if You Are Ready for SAFe
Blueprint: Applications
SAFe is a highly disruptive enterprise transformation that won’t solve your organizational delivery challenges by itself. Start with an open mind and an understanding of what is needed to support a multi-year cultural transition.
SAFe Transformation Playbook
Templates And Policies: Applications
Build a transformation and organizational change management plan to guide your transition. Define clear ownership for every critical step.