Changes in the Organization

Kenneth has 14 years of healthcare experience in government and private industry. Over eight years of experience managing healthcare IT projects, operations, contracts, and personnel. His work experience includes project management, contracts and procurements, data analysis, claims adjudication, business writing, and business process modeling. Kenneth was certified in 2006 as a Project Management Professional.

  Change Management   Organizational Project Management  

Organizations do not exist in a static form. There are constant reasons for change, and over time the organization may end up looking very different than it did when it started. This type of transformation is common and needed in today's world—if organizations do not grow or evolve, then they may end up not surviving as the world changes around them.

Unfortunately, change does not help employees who are often doing everything they can to keep up with their job and the needs of the client. Add project work on top of that, and no one has time for the next reorg or business transformation. Changes in the organization should be organized carefully—and in many ways, managed just like any other project the organization executes.

Evaluation First
Any time there is a change in the organization, even smaller changes, there should be an evaluation done first. That evaluation should look at how the organization is functioning today. The roles and responsibilities of anyone that will be affected by the reorganization should be discovered and documented (if that doesn’t already exist).

If there are changes to be made, the decision makers need to have a full understanding of what the organization looks like now and how well it works (or if it does not work well). The evaluation should be performed by someone who is objective and has the authority to discover …

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