I commented to an earlier blog post "Eye on the Workforce – Planning Ahead of the Chaos of Change". In it I ask about a tool or method to measure an organizations readiness for change. I move the question to this group for discovery.
I am, right now, at the moment in time of a project where I need to plan for the impact of change that the project will have on our organization. We all know that the impact will be big and that no employee will escape its reach.
What I would like to do now in advance of laying out the Change Management Strategy and subsequent executable plan, is to measure the readiness of each area of the business. I believe this will give my team the insight needed to determine where to spend their time on what and to what degree they need to dive in on each area.
I don't believe a blanket approach would be wise in this case but a more specific plan per area of the business based on results from a well designed survey or other information gathering tool.
The problem is, I don't know of such a tool. Does anyone have a tool for discovering an organization's readiness for change ether as a result of efforts to date (effectiveness of change management) or as a baseline tool (discovery in advance of strategy)? If someone could point me in a direction here that would be very helpful.
