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Project Management And Organizational Change, Lynn Crawford, Alicia Aitken, Anat Hassner-Nahmias
Project Management And Organizational Change, Lynn Crawford, Alicia Aitken, Anat Hassner-Nahmias
Lynn Crawford
Extract: Organizational changes have become recognized as a distinct type of project or program, and it may be argued that the majority of projects involve some degree of organizational and behavioral change. The degree of this change can be expected to be greater in projects where the purpose is to achieve organizational change, but even where the focus is on other outcomes, achievement of desired benefits may require structural changes and will generally involve some change in the way people do things. However, while project managers claim to be implementers of change, current project management standards focus on change control …