Do your people have a good understanding of why they must "leave the current state"? Do they understand the value to them as individuals of "getting to the Desired State"? If these questions are not addressed, resistance to the change naturally develops across the organization and creates risk to the implementation and sustainability of the change. Identifying and proactively dealing with this resistance is what we call "change management".

Where will this resistance emerge and when? Are your executives and managers prepared to be effective sponsors of the change and, by doing so, aid in minimizing this resistance? Do you have resources assigned to the project who can create your change management strategy for the project and supporting action plans? Managed Change™ can help you answer all of these questions and provide the framework and discipline to mitigate the risk associated with resistance.