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Article #160: Implement The Benefit Of Business Change With R-pm

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Conventional methods implement the costs it means reducing their own staff? Who
of change and prevent benefits. Benefit developed the old solution or gains a
from change through R-pM. technical authority from the old
solution? So, chances are the
Many of us have participated in business requirements boiled down to one - - "no
change projects. I am sure that we share change".
many experiences with the difficulties in So then, the project went through the
gaining successful business change. We steps of the methodology. Acquire the
have read about many cases of problems solution, set up the solution, train on
and disasters. Why after all this the solution, implement the solution,
experience and the many stories of accept solution, and operate the
unsuccessful business change, do we solution. But, all these steps just incur
continue to have problems? For a start: costs. Where are the steps for planning
0 We continue to employ bad methods for and achieving benefit?
business change. No one has ever put During all this, what happened if there
forward a good method was an exception, advanced need, or a
0 We do what everyone else is doing, to problem that was not addressed? These
implement the same problems as everyone likely were put off to the future or left
else "up to the users", since the objective is
0 We employ conventional wisdom, which implementation.
automatically introduces bad decisions What happens when it comes to acceptance?
0 Our enterprise is not structured to Well, the main requirement of the
plan and manage benefits, support new administrative project manager was met.
solutions in operation, or ensure good And, the manager would look bad if delays
performance from the solution or controversies were introduced. So
Let's go through business change step by implementation is signed off and the
step. What was the objective of business project is complete.
change? Likely, there is a nominal But what remains:
objective like increasing revenues, 0 Were advanced or future period features
reducing costs, or improving customer ever implemented?
service. What is the basis of this 0 Was the old solution completely
objective? Precisely how is the new removed, or is it still operated to
solution to be used to produce benefits handle the exceptions?
that add up to the nominal objectives and 0 Is the new solution utilized to
provide the return? This rarely is increase revenues, reduce costs, or
defined. improve customer service? Does anyone
If the nominal objective is just words, understand how to use the new solution to
what is the implementation team trying to do more than what was done before?
do. Often they will say their objective 0 Was a responsibility established to
is performance improvement. Should that ensure that the new solution is utilized
be the objective? Conventional wisdom to produce benefit?
says yes, but how do you feel when 0 Was a capability established to support
someone tells you, you need to improve and improve the solution?
your performance or that consultants are 0 Was a method established to track and
coming in to improve our performance? measure the return on the investment in
But, in the end, even performance the new solution?
improvement proves hard to define, so the 0 How many old performance problems were
objective comes down to something that implemented as part of the new solution?
every one involved can understand - - What is the cost of change now?
"solution implementation". 0 Are the users who face the customer,
Is solution implementation the proper enthusiastic about the new solution?
objective? Conventional wisdom says it Many enterprises have had implementations
is, but I think most of us recognize that where they implemented the cost of
it is not. But, none of us is sure of business change and received, at the
what the objective should be. most, marginal benefit.
Certainly, when consultants get involved, Even if the enterprise follows an
the objective is solution implementation. implementation or conventional business
They likely proposed a methodology that change method the best that it can, it
they can employ to convert the business will still be implementing the cost of
over to the new solution. business change. Conventional methods
So, if consultants were involved, who manage change and development through
ended up managing the day to day contrived entities rather than business
implementation - - the enterprise project reality. No conventional method can
manager or the consultant project enable the methodical development of the
manager? Likely it was up to the benefit of business change, since
consultants because that is conventional enterprises are not structured to plan,
wisdom and the enterprise does not have manage, and track the benefits. Until
the capability or experience with they are structured properly to manage
business change. So, who was appointed business reality, enterprises will
enterprise project manager? Was it a continue to implement the cost of
manager involved in increasing revenues business change.
or improving customer service? Or, was it This problem is eliminated by
the administrative manager supporting the Result-performance Management (R-pM), a
solution? new management breakthrough now being
Likely, the administrative manager was launched. R-pM provides the answer by
appointed project manager, since that is structuring enterprise results and
the conventional wisdom. What was the performance to enable result-performance
role of the enterprise project manager? development. The benefits of the
It likely boiled down to providing the investment come from result development;
solution requirements, which is what the the costs of investment come from
consultant wants. The nominal consultant performance development. The payback from
objective is to satisfy user requirements investments come from the increase in
and to do what the customer wants, which result value-added (result value less
conventional wisdom says are proper performance costs) compared to the result
objectives. value-added with no investment, over the
So what are the requirements of the payback period.
administrative project manager? Does the So, stop implementing the cost of
administrative manager know what is business change. Implement the benefit of
needed to improve revenues or customer business change by becoming a 21st
service? Is the administrative manager century enterprise with R-pM.
interested in really reducing costs, when






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