Change Management in Ford Motors

This analysis deals with the transformation management system of Ford Motor Co. and the Enterprise Environmental Factors that are related to the group. It focuses on the Electrical/Electronic Systems Engineering Department and the changes required in the project management procedures and project life cycle. The report also discusses the concept of Unified Change Control and its implementation in the organization.

Table of Contents
Part B..............................................................................................................................1
Introduction....................................................................................................................1
Change Request Scrutiny...............................................................................................1
Change Facts in project management procedures and in project life cycle...................3
Unified Change Control.................................................................................................6
Rationalizations of the required Changes......................................................................9
Conclusion....................................................................................................................10

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Part B
Introduction
This analysis particularly contracts with the transformation management system of the
Ford Motor Co. and the Enterprise Environmental Factors that are related to the group
(Ansoff et al., 2019). This report deal with a particular department of Ford that is
Electrical/Electronic Systems Engineering Department. This particular department mainly
deals with the electrical system associated with the organization and handles about 80
programs each day. This department of Ford organization consists of four functional units
including a chief engineer in all the department. The main motto of this department is to
provide great products to its customer, developing more products as well as delivering the
products faster (Lines et al., 2015). This electrical department also wants to achieve the
competitive cost and wants to build relationship between the stakeholders of the company.
The department also has emphasis on statement as well as processes that are carried out in the
organization.
For intensifying the communication in the electrical system, the Ford organization
communicates consistently, gives main focus on some of the priorities, provides simple
messages, and helps the people to prioritize as well as remove the barriers in the working
process (Harmon, 2019). Different change management as well as enterprise environment
factors has been taken in to account in the company to examine the project supervision in
their system. This report states the variation procurement controlling, the integrated change
control as well as justifications for the changes that were required in the system of Ford.
Change Request Scrutiny

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The Ford organization wants to change the working process in the organization as
because to make its products with improved quality, develop the products that already exist in
the system, and to build customer relationship within the organization (Hayes, 2018). The
change that is to be done in the electrical department of Ford includes transferring the
ownership as well as leadership related to project management from the project manager
professionals to the new engineering division that has been implemented in the organization.
This change is required in the system as because there is a need to entrench the goal of the
organization that includes increasing maturity of the project management.
The electrical branch of Ford wants to modification the business process by
countering the resistance for changing the design of the project supervision that is tangled in
the establishment. The frameworks that are designed for the business process includes
stakeholder’s participation (Jayatilleke & Lai, 2018). The personnel associated with the
system participates in office tools of project management as well as in the discussion
methodology in the management level of the organization. The personnel are also to be
involved in meetings associated in the working level of the organization. The participation
level in Ford Motors helps the organization to build best process in practice.
The change request in the association included in the electrical subdivision to include
three different levels in the bureau of project board. The three levels are explained below:
The first level consist of the governance board consisting of the governance directors
as well as the engineering chiefs in the system (Kerzner, 2018). The governance body helps
to organize and prioritize the project against corporate scorecard. This particular group
includes two directors as well as four engineering chiefs and helps to set the department’s
tone in increasing the excellence of the project.

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The stakeholders is the second group that is to be altered in the project management
office of the system. This particular group help the organization’ department to participate in
all the approved project regularly as well as sporadically (Doppelt, 2017). The stakeholders
should actually act as the subject matter experts. This helps the organization to include
technical knowledge that is related with different engineering tools and disciplines.
The third change request analysis for the organization is including professional
managers to manage the project. The staffs who work for Ford comes from different firm of
project management consultation that are retained by the electrical department (Harrison &
Lock, 2017). The duties of the project managers should include participating in prioritizing
the projects, developing the execution plans that are included in the project and carry out
work plans and last facilitate the team foundation as well as executing the deliverables for
some specific time. The project managers are also to perform audits and develop the changes
that are necessary for the project.
The change invitation in the electrical section of Ford should be recognized by all the
patrons that are connected with the jobs that are to be approved out with related changes with
the change application. The teams associated with the particular section, project directors,
governances as well as the stakeholders are to be impacted with the change that is undertaken
by the electrical sector. The entreaty for change is mainly initiated with the particular
department is enhancing the communication as well as process of business. This can be done
by including proper exercise to all the team adherents as well as instigating proper
performances in the commercial technique.
Change Facts in project management procedures and in project life cycle

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The variations implemented in the development management life cycle and in the
project supervision processes are profitable for solving the problems that are related with the
project handled by the electrical branch of Ford (Lock, 2017). The changes in the electrical
department includes the requirements of project management that are benefitted for all
problems included in system as well as in criticising the products that are manufactured by
the organization from customer end. The particular actions that are desired for transformation
management are better known as for the best strategies that are to be developed for bringing
out change in the electrical department. The practice helps the implement a new project that
can be organized by the electrical and electronic section of Ford for developing a product.
The changes that has been implemented in the system are explained below.
The change that was first implemented in the system is including a management
office in the electrical and electronic department (Berry, Broadbent & Otley, 2016). This
office of project management helps to standardize the process that are included in the system
for carrying out the processes in the system. The office is also capable of managing the
engineering that is included in the internal process as well as in the controlling process of the
electrical and electronic branch related to vehicle programs. The office that is being
developed in the department of electrical and electronic plays single supremacy role for
developing the agenda of the project organization that is complicated in the organization
(Laudon & Laudon, 2016). The planning that is included in the business as well as the
knowledge office mainly contributes in government panel that are held weekly in
administration office. Weekly consultations organized in the organization mainly helps the
managements, the commanders as well as the project managers to support the progress
process in the system and includes shift prioritize in the organization.

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The second change that is included in the electrical and automated department of the
Ford Motors mainly implements the professional managers that are connected with project is
connected with the professional managers that helps in consultation on implementing
business process and will help to monitor the maintenance of the project organization office
and implementation of the business processes that are to be carried out. The professional
managers also help in transferring of knowledge in the organization (Leitch, 2016). The
electrical and electronic department has included the project management concept as
discipline that are included in the manufacturing roles and also includes errands and includes
exercise session for all the team members. They can also follow all process of auditing in the
system that are most suitable to implement a project. The aim of Ford is recruiting project
management engineers who will be able to develop the competencies in automobile sectors
and include discipline for carrying out a process.
As per the specification of Ford, changes are required for controlling and organizing
the process carried out in electrical department of Ford (Lozano, Nummert & Ceulemans,
2016). The changes are to be handled in the project by the project managers. Some resistance
are initiated at primary stage of employing the change in the association by the employees of
Ford. They might oppose the changes that are included in the daily working activities of the
employees and the responsibility of the project managers are to make them understand about
what advantages the changes are to bring in the working activities in Ford. There are positive
changes that are to be conveyed by the project managers to the employees opposing the
changes.
The changes that are needed in Ford Motors were essential for the organization as the
changes would enhance their working efficiency and establish better communication in the
department. The changes would also help the organization to improve the techniques of

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product manufacturing in the department for enhance the quality of the product in the
electrical and electronics department. The manufacturing department of previous
manufacturing department faced a lot of problems in the electrical department (Schönsleben,
2016). The criticisms were from the customers and the criticism are to be taken positively in
the system. The criticisms are to be taken positively to bring out changes in the working
system. The changes are to be implemented in the guidance style.
The revolution that was undertaken in the system of electrical and electronics
department was transferring the leadership management and the ownership management for
all projects that are to be used in that particular department from the perspective of skilled
management in the industrial division. The results that have been analysed were positive that
were undertaken in Ford. Taking this particular decision in the electrical and electronic
section of Ford will help to expand the business goals. This will also help the organization to
increase the maturity to manage a project effectively (Atkin & Brooks, 2015). Involving the
tools of project management and the methodologies will increase the expectation of the
managers handling the project. All chain management functions in a particular project will
help to address and resolve variance to objectives that are related in the system. As per the
framework related to project organization, application of project management in working
process of electrical and electronic branch of Ford. The personnel associated with the project
needs to learn the methodology and the tools that are comprised in the system.
Unified Change Control
Integrated Revolution control refers to the influence of the changes that are involved
in the system or in the process which are considered as the limitation of the project being
undertaken. The changes that are undertaken in this particular department of electrical and
electronic of Ford are to be involved in the Integrated Alteration control for this mission

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(Bugeja, Czernkowski & Moran, 2015). The governor of the changes are to be managed in a
project. The change in a project mainly occurs in the execution phase of the project or in the
monitoring phase of the project. All these changes are to be controlled in the system. The
entreaty of adjustment supervision is not to be implemented or to be accomplished. In this
change switch management system, the variations are mainly accepted or are requested. The
changes of impact and the evaluation of the impact are defined exactly prior to implement the
changes.
When change is requested in a project of electrical and electronic department in Ford,
the impacts associated with the change are also analysed. The impact includes cost of the
project, the risks associated, project opportunity, resource and the quality of the project that is
to be included in the project. The quality of the product are also analysed while conducting
change management (Cook, 2015). Two main pre-requisites are measured that measures the
change in the project; the complete product along with the scope of the project, the real plan
related to the project.
The vicissitudes that are comprised in the plan are mainly inevitable and it is the
responsibility of the project manager to explain the main reason of change management in the
project to the employees who opposes the change. Improper development in the cases results
in alteration request and in supervising the appeal becomes improper in the system
(Hornstein, 2015). To handle the change request, proper preparation is desirable and the
demand of change control is to be controlled and managed by the project manager.
The change in the project is measured as single project that is to be implemented
before project starting, in the starting phase itself (Boyle, 2017). This change is continued till
project closure and is to be maintained by the manager of the project. Basically, four phases
are used in this particular change control management. This includes preparing change,

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planning change, manage change and last reinforcing the change in the project and to sustain
them.
To perform the integrated change control in the project, a process is considered that
helps to review the request of changes that takes place in a mission. The fluctuations that are
to be built-in in a project should review all request for change in the project and approves
changes to deliver project successfully. The ICC that is included in the system involves
reviewing the change control that are approved by a project manager and the changes that are
delivered in a project (Ling et al., 2015). The change control mainly includes all the assets
that are used in the organization process. Mainly three main objectives are followed while
developing the integrated change control in the system.
The first objective included for developing the ICC in the electrical and electronic
department of Ford is influencing the factors that changes the project and helps in ensuring
the project which is beneficial for the project (Li et al., 2016). Second objective that is
included in the project is determining variations that occur in the scheme and third impartial
is managing all vagaries that takes place in that scheme.
The ICC includes change governor of all the actions of administration of
configuration. The administration of arrangement mainly includes documentation, alignment
of the status secretarial, and verification of arrangement and also include auditing process in
the system (Netland, Schloetzer & Ferdows, 2015). The management plan that is undertaken
for identification, configuration of the accounting status, and includes verification of the
process. Proper communication should be included in the system so that the stakeholders can
easily connect with the project and the project executive handling the scheme.
The information that are related with the project doings are needed to be composed as
project growth and different performance are to be involved in the project that includes the

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status of delivery, the cost that is incurred in the project and the progress schedule (Széll,
Blyton & Cornforth, 2015). The monitoring system needs to control the processes that are
included in the system related to change control in the electrical and electronic section of
Ford.
Rationalizations of the required Changes
The electrical and electronic section of Ford undertook changes to recover their
operation within the department. This particular department needs to quantify assessment
need to satisfy the project processes in eth system. With the change regulator implemented in
the organization, the project engineer was able to count the assessment need in the scheme
that were considered in the life cycle of the project (Newton & Asimakopoulou, 2015). The
department of electrical and electronic department of Ford includes the maturity level to
implement the strategies of project management in organization. The change regulator mainly
started with the maturity level that includes internalizing efforts that are needed for
transferring the project management knowledge include both the maturity of technical models
involving development plans, training as well as training models in the system. The
implementation included in the change management helps to internalize competency and the
approach to conduct project organization in the system.
Application of change management in the electrical and electronic subdivision of
Ford helps to uphold all necessary construction that are needed for possession delivery of the
project consistency to permit the changes in the project (Stark, 2015). The office that is
implemented in the department helps to review governance that checks monthly of project.
The office of project management helps to give the project manager to provide proper
endorsement for the variations that occurs in plan. All control changes includes stakeholders
associated able to encounter the alteration in the project including the tools of the project

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supervision. The changes that are to be undertaken includes change control to improve the
methodology for the project that is undertaken.
Conclusion
From the above discussion, it can be stated that proper communication is the only way
to completing a project successfully. Proper communication helps to drive all the changes
that takes place in the electrical and electronic branch of Ford Motors. The association has
included all the business process and the tools and techniques of project management to
increase its efficiency and providing better service, fast delivery and quality service to their
customers. Change management system is an important part of electrical department and as
discussed above, it is the duty of the project managers to make the employees understand the
need the change in the project.
There are many processes that are included in handling the strategies of project
management. All those strategies are implemented by the electrical department in the Ford
Motors. Training is an important part of the project management system and training is to be
implemented in the system so that the employees are able to carry out the change
management efficiently and easily.
Having transformation in an association is compulsory for an ordered, regular
presentation, apparatuses and the properties that help to modification the progressions tangled
in the association. The Electrical/Electronic division of Ford Motors have approved the
fluctuations, effected approaches to govern the revolution and implemented the achieving
alteration in the professional. All the investors included in Ford Motors needs for alteration
and those modifications were completed by Ford Motors to content their consumer provision
and the investors linked with the firm.

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The report above states all the required changes that Ford Motors have undertaken to
work on their electrical department and electronic department of the system that helps in
improving the business strategy. The report able states the change requirement analysis in the
project that were carried out in the department of electrical and electronic department in Ford
and details of all the changes are discussed in the report. The ICC and the change control of
project organization procedure and activities of project life series is shown in the report and
proper justification is provided stating justification related to the reason of using the change
management system in Ford Motors.

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