Impact
Monitor the change impact and celebrate achievements. Adjust the change plan as necessary to ensure that the intended impact of change is achieved and to mitigate risk.
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for Impact at each level of maturity.
- 2Basic
- Practice
- Monitor and report progress against the change plan, at set intervals.
- Outcome
- Change progress is monitored against the change plan and reported at set intervals.
- Metric
- Existence of change progress reports.
- Practice
- Make modifications to the change initiative according to the change plan.
- Outcome
- Adjustments to the change plan can only be made at set points.
- 3Intermediate
- Practice
- Establish critical success factors and report these throughout the change initiative.
- Outcome
- Critical success factors are established and tracked and reported throughout the change initiative.
- Metric
- Existence of change critical success factors.
- Practice
- Ensure that any changes to the initiative deliverables are controlled through formal change control and project and programme management processes.
- Outcome
- Formal procedures provide for contingency and ways of adapting to unanticipated opportunities and problems.
- Metric
- Existence of a formal change control procedure allowing for contingency changes.
- 4Advanced
- Practice
- Ensure sponsors react appropriately to the achievement and non-achievement of the intended change impact.
- Outcomes
- Critical success factors are continually monitored.
- Sponsors respond by recognizing and celebrating achievement and by ensuring corrective actions are taken when the change impact is not as intended.
- Metrics
- # of celebrations of change achievement.
- # of corrective actions raised re: non-achievement of change impact.
- Practice
- Escalate quickly when the change initiative is failing to achieve the desired outcome.
- Outcome
- Change leaders have visibility of the change initiative and can quickly and flexibly realign it to achieve the desired outcome and to communicate the approved change to all relevant stakeholders.
- Metric
- Average time taken to address change escalations.
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- Ensure that there is visible support and monitoring of change by high-level sponsors.
- Outcome
- The visible support and monitoring by high-level sponsors raises the levels of awareness of the change and support for the change.
- Metric
- Activity of high-level sponsors.
- Practice
- Proactively monitor change progress and engage directly with all those affected by the change, so enabling immediate feedback.
- Outcome
- Effective monitoring provides the necessary information for change leaders to make informed decisions to adjust the course of action when required.
- Metric
- # of hours of contact between change leaders and change participants per week.