BEHAVIORAL CHANGE
MANAGEMENT
Organizations seem hesitant to
adopt analytics and EPM methods. Is
it evaluation paralysis or brain freeze?
Most organizations make the mistake
believing that applying analytics and
EPM methods are 90 percent math and
10 percent organizational change management with employee behavior alteration. In reality it is the other way around
– it is more likely 5 percent math and 95
percent about people.
A problem with removing behavioral
barriers to deploy analytics and EPM methods is that almost none of us have training
or experience as organizational change
management specialists. We are not sociologists or psychologists. However, we
are learning to become like them. Our focus should be on the “why to implement”
and its motivating effects on organizations
rather than the “how to.” The challenge is
how to alter people’s attitudes.
One way to remove cultural barriers is to acknowledge a problem that all
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