This MAPP content provides a comprehensive approach to planning and implementing a change process within a business.
MAPP Change has been created through research with individuals and managers who have been involved in the process of change with one or more companies. Using their experience and avoiding their mistakes you will be able to quickly generate a simple and comprehensive change plan asking all the questions that you may never ask yourself when it comes to planning such a process.
MAPP Change has over 60 separate steps that are recommended as the key ones that will help you to create a robust plan for the change so it’s pretty likely that you will need to do most, if not all, of them yourself if you too are trying to move a company from one state to another effectively and efficiently.
Categories of decisions that make up this set include:
Define – Decision steps related to finding out what you key issues will have to be defined before the change programme is started including clarifying the vision for the change through to defining the timescales over which the change will take place.
Deliver - Decision steps related to the key deliverables that the organisation will need to produce to ensure a successful process including specifying which metrics should be tracked through to implementing the right training for all employees.
Inform – Decision steps related to how stakeholders will be kept informed of progress at all points in the change process including developing an appropriate communications plan through to arranging Town Hall meetings
People – Decision steps related to what specific roles may be necessary to plan and implement the change including appointing a change champion through to adjusting the recruitment process.
Prepare - Decision steps related to the elements of the change that will need preparation in advance of the change process including evaluating the current culture through to anticipating and managing risk.
Revise - Decision steps related to the elements of the existing culture that may need to be revised to accommodate the changes including adjusting symbols and ceremonies through to collecting the right data.
Who is it aimed at?
MAPP change is aimed primarily at those individual and managers that are planning to implement a corporate change programme and who generally have not gone through the process ever before or even recently. Using the experience of others who have been through similar change processes before and who have had to deal with making mistakes and missing key steps, MAPP Change enables the firm to ask all the questions it would not normally ask itself about what it needs to do get everything ready for a shift in culture and practice. The information is generic in outlook and can be useful for businesses of all kinds. Although this set can be used by individuals on their own we recommend using it with at least one other person to generate reflection and perspective.