The whole management team should take advantage of futureSME’s change management methodology, and discuss possible implementation during strategy meetings. The methodology provides:
- A disciplined, planning framework with repeatable steps
- Tactics to analyse the impact of business changes on the organisation and its people
- Approaches to analyse and exploit responses to prior changes
- Definitions of the roles which are critical to effective implementation
The steps involved in change management are:
 |  | Define the Change. Project Overview Template |  | Assess the Climate. Implementation History and Organisational Stress Assessment |  | Identify Change Approach. Contextual Evaluation |  | General Sponsorship. Sponsor Assessment |  | Prepare those who will be impacted by the change. Target Readiness Assessment |  | Support those directly involved in making the change happen. Change Agent Assessment |  | Communication Planning. Communication Plan and General Project Implementation Plan | |