What would software development be without change management? The two are inseparable...What is change management? When people talk about change management in high-tech, they are usually referring to the tools that manage source code
However, most of these originate from developed Western nations where the social culture is generally homogeneous while possibly being punctured by organizational culture set by different management styles. When I first ventured into ECM projects in the GCC , I was driven by the theory of project management from the “West”, borrowing plenty from the PMP and Prince2 schools of thought
For this reason, we need to be fanatical about training and change management for any paper-lite initatives
Immediately following, I gingerly tiptoed towards electronic records management for all storage locations...In the past we’ve looked to this executive to be our sponsor for the electronic records management implementation
– SharePoint P roblem and Change Management Procedures I
Here is the exact chat we had this morning on why change management is so hard. See if you relate...We continued to chat about the day to day life of change management
It is well known that the primary reason ECM and records management implementations fail is because of change management issues. This seems to happen even if a significant change management effort is made - but why?
One of the more intriguing lines of inquiry at a recent meeting of the AIIM New England Chapter had to do with my assertion that there is a connection between analyzing your business problems and engaging in change management. Though on the surface these appear to be two completely separate exercises, I believe that your ultimate success depends upon inviting the people who will be affected by the change to participate in the initial articulation of those business problems
When SharePoint Server 2010 is implemented in your environment, you’re not just implementing a simple document management or Web-based collaboration solution
Erica Johnson, Enterprise Content Management Specialist at Freeport-McMorRan Copper & Gold, is our first member of the week nominated by a co-worker. I’ll let Greg Fitzgerald, who nominated Erica, take it from here: Erica has always been a key member of our Records Management team here at Freeport McMoRan
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