Comments on: Change Management in Schools

By: Andy Hutt

Andy Hutt — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:42:20 +0000

Terry’s Tweet about this led to my visit. Good article Doug and prompted me to revisit some slides on change management. I’ve blogged about it at http://www.andyhutt.co.uk and uploaded some PPT slides at http://bit.ly/9eWzhV
Hope you find them interesting.

Andy

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By: Melissa Dutmers

Melissa Dutmers — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:14:50 +0000

Doug,
Insightful article. I appreciate your insights in the last paragraph – you’re practical and realistic.

Cheers!
Melissa Dutmers
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By: Terry Freedman

Terry Freedman — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:15:11 +0000

Great article, Doug, and I will try to remember to recommend it in my own series on this subject, at http://www.ictineducation.org/home-page/tag/change-management. Also, thx for the heads-up about that book, which I hadn’t heard about.
I do take issue with you one thin g, just slightly. You say:
“Let’s not go overboard here. I am not saying that we need a full blown Change management implementation every time a school acquires an additional piece of equipment, especially where that piece of equipment is just an augmentation of what already exists.”

Unless there is a change management process, how would anyone know if it does or doesn’t augment what already exists. Surely what is needed is for there to be a set of criteria against which the decision to buy new equipment is evaluated?
It may be that the process begins and ends with that checklist. For example, the question: “Should we buy a class set of pocket video recorders?” might be evaluated in the light of a criterion like: “Does the school have appropriate processes in place already?”
If the school already has 10 class sets of pocket video cameras, or even one, then the answer is probably ‘yes’, in which case a full-blown change management process is probably not required. If, however, the answer is ‘no’, then surely that could lead on to a further set of questions: ‘Do we have storage facilities? Are we able to security mark them? Have staff had appropriate CPD regarding ways of uising them?’ etc
The Framework for ICT Support process is pretty good on all this.
Just my random thoughts at gpne 1 am!
Cheers