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Managing regulatory change requires understanding new legislation, monitoring official communications, and implementing compliance systematically. Learn best practices for achieving regulatory compliance while minimizing disruption and cost. Discover how to map affected business areas, engage employees effectively, and streamline the change process with workflow software.
Change requests are inevitable in project management, proposing alterations to agreed deliverables. Managing them effectively requires documenting the request, assessing scope impact, prioritizing with your team, approving or rejecting based on merit, and communicating the decision to all stakeholders.
When employees don't understand restructuring plans, they invent reasons like job insecurity, creating gossip and opposition. Learn four proven methods to overcome resistance - from unclear reasoning and legitimate business concerns to personal grudges and political motivation - plus the critical delegation clarity needed to turn announcements into action.
Peter Drucker, the Father of Modern Management, believed management is a liberal art requiring psychology, science, and ethics. He coined key terms like knowledge worker and management by objectives, and taught that organizations should develop people intellectually and morally.
Change management processes can create bottlenecks when they prioritize bureaucracy over solving problems. Strip away rigid approval procedures, make processes customer-centric and flexible, empower staff to take action, and improve sign-off processes. Lean change management enables faster improvements while maintaining essential communication and engagement.
Three adoption strategies exist: Big Bang (everyone switches same day for instant change but high risk), Parallel (old and new systems run simultaneously allowing fallback but people resist changing), and Phased (gradual team-by-team rollout that's organized but slower). Strategy choice depends on user count, risk tolerance, training capacity, and system complexity.