Project Manager 2.0: What is Your Change Management Plan?

Irfan Shariff is an expert project manager with a passion for delivering exceptional results for his clients. He is passionate about driving the utilization of project management in its entirety in organizations so that they can repeatedly deliver exceptional value to their stakeholders in the most effective and efficient way. He can be reached at [email protected].

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The organizational world within which project managers operate is going through rapid and unprecedented change, driven by forces of globalization and digital technology. In acknowledgement of the 2.0 buzzword (workplace 2.0, green 2.0, Our World 2.0, Doctors 2.0) that attempts to convey the essence of the rapidly changing world we live and work in, I will unsurprisingly call this new organizational world: Organizational World 2.0 (or OW 2.0). Common sense dictates that to survive and thrive in OW 2.0, we as project practitioners need to become next generation project managers, a.k.a. Project Managers 2.0 (PM 2.0).

In order to become successful PM 2.0s, we need to:

• Genuinely appreciate the deep and disruptive changes going on in the organizational world
• Acknowledge that if we have to succeed in OW 2.0, we need to become PM 2.0s
• Build and implement our own personal change management plan to become PM 2.0s

OW 2.0 is here to stay, as globalization and digital disruption won’t go away. Globalization with the free flow of goods, labor and capital across national boundaries will continue to drive down costs, reduce profits and increase the scope of competition. By reducing the friction in transactions and through clever algorithms that automate increasingly complex tasks, digital technology will carry on disrupting entire industries. No industry,…

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