Challenges in Change Management

Key change challenges

Respondents of a research study identified several of the key barriers to change:

• Changing mindsets and attitudes,
• corporate culture
• underestimating project complexity

 

Factors for successful change

Practitioners firmly place key responsibility for the fate of change projects in the executive suite:

• top management sponsorship
• employee involvement
• honest and timely communication
• corporate culture that motivates and promotes change

 

The most significant challenges when implementing change are people-oriented:

Nos.	Soft Factors	Hard Factors
1.	Changing mindset and attitudes	Shortage of resources
2.	Corporate culture	Lack of change know-how
3.	Underestimating complexity	Lack of transparency because of missing or wrong information
4.	Lack of commitment from higher management	Change of process
5.	Lack of motivation of involved employees	Change of IT system
6.		Technology barriers

 

Shared from:

Hans Henrik Jørgensen, Lawrence Owen, Andreas Neus, (2009),"Stop Improvising Change Management!", Strategy & Leadership, Vol. 37 Iss: 2 pp. 38 - 44