1. Identify changes. This requires an effective change management system to build up the relationships of the
requirements, symptoms, malfunctions, and various other aspects of changes. It is common for a typical
change management system to exclude the identification stage and start with the change evaluation and
proposal processes. This is because the initiating role of a change is hard to be taken automatically by the
system, or at the least, a computational system is far less “smart” or “intelligent” than people thought.
However, from academic or innovative viewpoint, reaching the “intelligence” of such pro-activeness in
change management needs a lot of R&D efforts.