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Pre-Check, Please
Managing strategic change initiatives and complex project turnarounds can be like trying to solve a 10,000-piece jigsaw puzzle with a ticking alarm clock. In order to improve your odds of ending up with a pretty picture, consider adding a project pre-check to your toolset to see if any pieces are missing.
Even before his technical teams' projects are funded, Stephen Hawald is already hard at work. Hawald, director of Robbins-Gioia's Process Refinement and Optimization Practice, implements a Project Pre-Check method during the expression-of-interest phase, after a project business case has been built, submitted and approved by appropriate governance bodies.
"Programs in which key business changes are implemented have been, and will continue to be, medium- to high-risk adventures. This is because they involve getting large organizations ready for large change," Hawald says. "Project Pre-Check is an approach that helps you understand the deeper internal and external components of a proposed project before work begins."
Hawald's main concern, as he goes into a project, is readying stakeholders. "Too often, there's massive OCM [organizational change management] happening, but no buy-in from stakeholders. That means they could be fighting and arguing with you the whole way," Hawald says.
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