This course offers a clear path to achieving Enterprise Configuration Management (ECM), the essential process for improving an organization's tools and core business processes. Many organizations experience disappointment with efforts to implement improvements to legacy PDM, PLM, or ERP systems, often facing reduced project scope, cost overruns, and missed schedules. These challenges are symptoms of a larger issue, an inability to effectively manage and implement change. Through a step-by-step simulation, this course provides the foundation needed for successfully implementing tool or process improvement initiatives. Participants will learn how to evaluate current business practices, identify strengths and weaknesses, develop transition plans, and manage projects to ensure they meet their goals and deliver the intended results.

Preparation for organizational change. Planning the next steps including organizational alignment and adoption. Students will be able to understand these key concepts and more:

• Gaining leadership sponsorship and alignment
• A phased approach to organizational change: Scoping, Action Plan, Roadmap
• Assessing your organization's current state and conducting a gap analysis to a desired state
• How to develop a detailed To-Be state implementation plan with Organizational Change Management
• Assessing an organizations existing tool compatibility with identified future state business requirements
• Defining clear roles & responsibilities for implementation and process ownership/governance
• Establish performance metrics for success monitoring and data driven continual improvement