Week 2: Change Model - Ben

This Change Management Model can describe the situation of my company’s experience well.
The CASE is about migrating databases from old systems to a new ERP system, since there are 4 different databases to store clients, products, accessories and staff information. As all the data are separated and without linkage, our company would like to migrate all of them into a new interfaces’ ERP system to centralize all the databases and build up an integrated platform for easier management.

There are ten steps of this change:

1.       Learning
- Understand the current situation of our own company and competitors, including strategies and systems.

2.       Recognizing the need for change
- Compare the differences between our company and competitors and find out others’ successful factors.

3.       Setting a vision for change
- Consolidate information from vendors and viewing their presentations for investigation and discussion.

4.       Understanding culture and polities
- Get approval from Management and consider man power and other issues.

5.       Promoting and employing leadership- Hire technical staffs and experienced consultant to help on running the project. Besides, promoting staff for handling the progress.

6.       Identifying a change approach- Arrange meeting internally and announce the migration ideas to all colleagues.

7.       Planning the change
- Arrange meeting with vendors and design the project plan, including timeline of first, second and third stages. (Testing -> In Progress -> Evaluate)

8.       Implementing the change- Start testing and proceed the First stage – Testing and Implementation.

9.       Controlling the change process- Second stage – Keep monitoring the progress and make sure the migration is smooth with no issues.

10.   Evaluating change- Third stage – Evaluating the progress, and make amendment if needed.

After the tenth step, it will move it back to the first step - Learning so as to run as a cycle for further changes.