People just hate changes. Did you ever hear this from anyone before? Something like this may sounds painfully familiar. In organization, especially large organizations like enterprises of holdings will inevitably see changes. Changes are for the better on the positive point of view, but it also creates resistance. That is how change resistance take shapes in all, if not most organizations. Specifically, it is hard to manage but a very important task to undertake in order to maintain your organization missions and objectives. When people resist change, it will affect both effectiveness and efficiency of the operation environment as well as climate in your organization. Nothing like act of malicious nature, but the act of not fully supporting the change can result in a broken link in the overall operational workflow of the organization in question.

What is change management?

This is a strategic approach to bring about developmental systematic implementation on a certain procedures, systems or operation directions. An approach that will allows the operation of the organization and the people working in it to accept and apply the change successfully and optimizing the change to align with the organizational objectives. Well, put it simply, helping your organization staffs to accept it, understand it and knows how to apply it.

The value of Change Management

In order to dissect this systematic approach of change management, I would incline to use the SWOT model (Strength, Weakness, opportunity and threat) to find out what are the challenges faced during a generic change management process.

Strength

- The strength of applying change management would of course allow the users or the stakeholders of the change in particularly a system or a newly implemented machinery to understand the advantages of change.
- Training will be a critical link in the change process to enable the users to fully comprehend its function and hopefully fully utilizing it.
- It seems very structural in dealing with overlapping concerns that may arise during the implementation and planning.

Weakness

- Change management is a very delicate process that involves risks.
- Risk of encountering very strong and stubborn resistance against the organization overall planning.
- Hurting efficiency may cause the organization to fall or decrease in revenue.
- Wrongly executed may resulted in disgruntle and may see capable people leaving the organization.

Opportunity

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