A change manager can help you accomplish this, in the following ways:
1. Identify who will be impacted. Upstream/Downstream. Direct/Indirect. Small/Large. All impacts.
2. Create a Stakeholder Map to visually show how everyone will be impacted.
3. Assess the impact. Describe the potential changes and seek feedback about the intensity of change with each group, concerns, support, and resistance from those impacted.
4. Test the changes by running an experiment to validate the impact of changes. Do this through a mock dry run prototype.
5. Capture feedback from the prototype and use the insights to develop the change charter and plan.
All of this should be done before a project is kicked off. The Change Life Cycle begins before the Project Life Cycle, and continues on after the project is closed.
What do you think? Agree? Disagree?
