RMIT INTE2412: IT Governance and Change Management Proposal Analysis

This report presents a change management proposal focusing on the Department of Victorian Government, using the VAL IT framework as a case study. It analyzes shortcomings in governance practices and designs change management interventions based on Kotter’s Eight-Step model. The report explores strategic and operational levels of intervention, project management, and institutional development. It details each step of Kotter's model, including developing urgency, forming a coalition, creating a vision, communicating the vision, removing obstacles, generating short-term wins, consolidating gains, and anchoring changes in the culture. The conclusion emphasizes the complexities of change and the need for efficient managers to implement these interventions successfully, referencing relevant literature on change management.

Change
Management
Proposal
(Victoria’s
government
departments)

Introduction:
 The presentation analyses the ways of designing the
change management project.
 In order to undertake this, the Department of Victorian
Government that is found to be initiating the VAL IT
framework is taken as the case study.
 Next, to understand various shortfalls in the practices
of governances, the ways of designing the intervention
of change management is evaluated.
 Further, the different proposed intervention has been
lying on the base of Kotter’s Eight step model of
change.

2. Understanding change management
interventions:
It has been taking place at the following levels:
 Strategic levels
 Operations management

Besides, the other change management interventions are as follows.
 Project and program management and development:
 Institutional development:

4. The chosen intervention on the basis of Kotter’s
model:
 Step 1: Developing the Urgency
 Step 2: Forming an effective kind of Powerful Coalition
 Step 3: Developing an efficient Vision to make the Change
 Step 4: Making Communication with the Vision

 Step 5: Eradicating
all the Obstacles
 Step 6: Developing
various kinds of
Short-Term Wins
 Step 7: Developing
the Change
 Step 8: Anchoring
different types of
Changes within the
Corporate Culture:

6. Conclusion:
 The change is a complicated method. There are various barriers that are
required to be overcome. In order to implement the above interventions
of change programs under the Victorian Government need efficient
managers.

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