The cost of change management has three aspects: expenditure, people and time.
In expenditure terms there is a cost only if you purchase software designed to aid
the creation and processing of requests for change. We recommend that you do
not purchase software at this stage but use the templates we have created for you
to download. The implementation and operations guides refer to the templates as
you need them, and we have also grouped them together in
Toolkit .
In people terms Change Management requires full-time change specialists only if
there is a large volume of continuous change, usually in large organisations. In a
school you should be able to allocate the roles and responsibilities to existing
members of staff. Roles and responsibilities are referred to throughout the Change
Management section, and also grouped together in
Roles and responsibilities.
The amount of time taken up by the Change Management process once it is
operational is difficult to quantify, as it will depend on the volume of changes in your
school. There is a trade off between spending time planning and preparing
changes thoroughly and making changes without planning that may result in
incidents and problems later. We think prevention is better than cure!
Remember to allow time for the implementation and integration of the process into
normal day-to-day activities. See the implementation guide for more details.
