Forming a powerful guiding coalition
The development of a project team with strong managerial
skills, excellent subject knowledge and commitment to
change is essential for any organizational change, most identifiably
for large scale projects. This project team guides the
rest of the company’s personnel, which in effect requires increased
authority for functioning and sometimes surpassing
the hierarchy, the norms, the expectations and the protocol
of the company in order to have a fast and efficient decision
making process in place. Thus, part of the team’s power has
to derive from the provision of the necessary capacity and
resources by the company’s top management (Simpson and
Cacioppe, 2001). It is also vital, for the success of the project,
thus team to have strong collaborative skills and spirit, as
well as to be able to inspire and engage the staff directly or
indirectly involved in the project.
Creating a vision
The development of a strong and vivid vision is important
to act as a guide to the effort for change in the organization.
Consequently, strategies for the realization of this vision
need to be planned and implemented and moreover commitment
to a clearly shared vision is an important element
which contributes not only to the implementation of change,