Change Management at the Life Cycle Institute
Learning is Change. Change is Learning. Brochure (PDF)
Life Cycle Engineering change management consultants can guide your organization through culture change, process change, software implementation and reorganization. We can provide your staff with the strategy, tools and processes you need to succeed through change.
A 2008 McKinsey & Company survey of over 3000 executives around the world revealed that nearly 70% of all change management initiatives fail. What makes the other 30% successful? According to Prosci’s 2009 Best Practices in Change Management benchmarking report1 four factors determine the success of change efforts:
- Visible and active sponsorship
- Frequent and open communications
- Structured change management approach
- Dedicated resources
In a culture of empowerment, ownership, and accountability people will embrace change as long as they are part of the change. Change management is the process, tools and techniques to manage the people side of change to achieve a required business outcome.2
As an engineering company, we recognize the importance of a structured process for approaching change management.
If your organization is going through one of these changes, you need change management!
- Business process design
- Software implementation or technology upgrade
- Organization restructuring
- Merger or acquisition
- Expansion or downsizing
- Business model change or new venture
- New marketing campaign
- Job redesign
- Reliability Excellence
- Change that impacts customers
- Change that impacts suppliers
Life Cycle Engineering’s History with Change Management
Life Cycle Engineering’s experience with change management began early in our 35-year history. After working exclusively with the U.S. Navy for 10 years, we recognized a need in commercial industries for the same types of proactive processes we were implementing for the government. This shift to commercial industry helped us to quickly realize the need for more collaboration within the organization when it came to changes that affect the way people work.
When we integrated the technical solution with a structured change management approach, results exceeded the original business case. Employees not only accepted the change, they embraced it, because they were included as part of the solution. This resulted in faster speed of adoption, higher utilization and increased proficiency of the new process.3
In 2005 Life Cycle Engineering adopted Prosci’s change management approach as our standard methodology. As an engineering firm, the decision to use Prosci’s change management model was easy. Their structured methodology reflects and enhances our engineering approach.
Engineering and Change Management Go Hand-in-Hand
Regardless of how transformational your change is, the process is methodical and engineers know process! Most change efforts fail for avoidable reasons. In other words, failure was inadvertently designed into the solution. As an engineering firm, we bring the experience of using structured engineering processes into your organizational change initiatives. We can help you to design success in and design failure out of your project plan.
Change Management Training
Learning is change, and change is learning. Education remains a core element in our implementation methodology. LCE established the Life Cycle Institute as a structured business focused solely on education using adult learning principles. In order to empower our clients to increase their change capabilities, the Institute partnered with Prosci to become the first Prosci Authorized Training Provider in the U.S. Our training capabilities include:
- Change Management Certification
- Sponsor Training
- Manager Training
- Employee Change Management Orientation
1 Prosci’s 2009 Best Practices in Change Management benchmarking report
2 Prosci's Definition of Change Management
3 © Prosci 2011. Prosci’s Change Management Model
Change Management Resources
Links:
Join the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP)
Prosci Change Management Learning Center
Project Management Institute
Change Management Videos:
Join ACMP: The Assocication of Change Management Professionals
ACMP Workshop: Learning is Change. Change is Learning
Change Management for Project Success: Do your projects stack up?
Managing the Emotional Side of Change
Leading Organizational Change
Not All Change is Created Equal
Change Management Webinars:
Yogi Berra—Change Consultant
Planning for the Emotional Side of Change
What We’ve Got Here is a Failure to Communicate
Darwin, the Referee and Learning to Fish
Change Management Articles:
Life Cycle Engineering's Five Stage Model For Change
Yogi Berra—Change Consultant
Planning for the Emotional Side of Change
Hey Ref! Can We Have the Ball Back?
Culture Change: Clearing The Road To Reliability Excellence
For More Information on Change Management
843.744.7110 | changemgmt@LCE.com
