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In this, there has been a call for better communication and collaboration between development and information technology.
“We live in an age where businesses cannot afford to fall behind with the constant evolution of automation across the board,” says Bizmod consultant, Colette Staniland.
The biggest question is, how do we ensure that our resources keep up with the rapid change in IT development?In many situations, organisations have adopted agile, or aspects of agile, in their IT practices. However, their approach to the people changes management function is retained in the traditional method of managing people change.
The change management method has been built to closely align to a waterfall project management method and is therefore too slow and too heavy for agility in the workplace, Staniland explains.
With that said, it is integral for management to also evolve at a rapid pace to prohibit being overwhelmed by automation.
What's the solution?
Staniland provides six steps to create an organisation that is ready for the future:
“Change is a constant, but the speed and magnitude in which change occurs have taken a form of its own. We need to change the way we view change to remain future relevant,” says Staniland.