Change Management Risk Assessment - The 2 Key Parameters
The two parameters of any change management risk assessment are firstly a change legacy assessment; followed by a present assessment. Legacy assessment It is absolute nonsense to contemplate - let alone commence - a change initiative without serious reference to your organisations' history of attempting change. Staggeringly, so many companies - especially in North America - do just that and rush into their next change initiative without debriefing and without conducting a change management risk assessment - and specifically without assessing what did and didn't work last time, and why. You need to get that knowledge and insight now, right up front as it can help you repeating past mistakes and failing with this your current initiative. Your organisations' "change readiness" is best indicated by your organisations' legacy of change initiatives (both those that worked and those that didn't work) as it provides an important early indicator of what lies ahea...