Purpose And Scope


Technical Purpose

The technical purpose should be to create new processes out of the two organizations that combine the best of both—best of breed approach. Lofty goal, eh?

The real world is that there are often insufficient resources to even approach this goal. So the fallback is to work on the organization and systems. The thinking is that if you get the organization and systems right, then the processes in the middle will work well. Processes are different than that because both systems and the organizations support the processes—they often do not drive the processes.

Business Purpose

The business purpose is to attain the financial and other business objectives that were laid out when the two organizations got together. However, the problem is measurement. If you measure what people do in advance of change, then you have started on measurement. But after the combination of the organizations you find that upper management may not have the taste for measurement. There is too much unpleasant stuff lying around. Also, they will give the reason that the combination is over so there is no point in measuring.

Political Purpose

As with software implementation, there is limited attention to this. But it is very important. You must work to develop a new culture based on the two organizations. You cannot go in and wave a magic wand. How do you develop a common approach? You should get the employees together from both companies in a specific city. Have the individuals from each company discuss each key business process. Then the employees from the other company do the same. Now they discuss how a new process would work. This must be done on the individual transactions level.




International Project Management
International Project Management: Leadership in Complex Environments
ISBN: 0470578823
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 154

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