SAP Planning: Best Practices in Implementation

Change Management Best Practices and Approaches

In this section, I will discuss a process commonly used to implement change, and identify what I consider to be best-in-class change management practices.

Although the labels may differ, organizations possessing a firm grasp on managing change have adopted a process similar to the following:

• Create a project team dedicated to change
• Communicate the vision and goals of this team
• Acquire project team resources
• Monitor people/organizational issues
• Determine change management processes and practices to be leveraged, including tool sets
• Reorganize to support these processes and practices
• Implement these processes and practices
• Monitor completion of the project plan’s tasks and milestones
• Communicate feedback, ...