A framework for selecting change strategies in IT organizations

  • Authors:
  • Jan Pries-Heje;Otto Vinter

  • Affiliations:
  • The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark;DELTA IT Processes, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • PROFES'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we describe a framework which combines several models for organizational change. The framework enables an organization to decide which strategies will be most successful when implementing a specific change in its particular setting. The conditions for change is assessed in relation to each of the strategies for organizational change and a list-of-fit is produced, which reveals the degree to which each of the strategies fits the specific setting. The framework was developed and evaluated within a field study involving four companies in the financial sector. The IT organizations in two of these collaborated with the researchers in providing promising evaluations of the framework.