Thursday, July 19, 2012

Why does a CIO need Organisational Change Management?

In general, Information Technology departments in companies worldwide tend to severely underestimate change management because of overwhelming preoccupation with technology.

This, very often, leads to avoidable costs resulting from poorer-than-expected adoption amongst users. Their passive and active resistance to the change (s) introduced by the IT department leads to lower realization of ROI, and to a vicious cycle of poor reputation of (a) the change and (b) thus the IT team, thus costing the firm heavily. These costs might be hidden but they are huge avoidable costs nevertheless for the business. In the past, this was not pursued by businesses, but organizations are waking up to these costs now.

Change Management can eliminate this waste through a systematic and scientific program that
(a)   engages the stakeholders
(b)   ensures organization readiness
(c)    addresses legitimate user resistance
(d)   ensures timely system support
(e)   prevents rollback, thus eliminating wasteful costs
Chief Information Officers (CIO) usher in process change, systems change and technology change to enable speed and efficiency for their business.

When the CIO ushers in change...with new technology, new applications, new infrastructure, and changes to existing applications & infrastructure, (s)he is answerable to the shareholders and management on how the user group or people in the organization react to and adopt the change.
Acceptance of the change, its full adoption, successful management of resistance and full promotion of the change from all quarters are a dream-come-true situation for a CIO.

Organizational Change Management (OCM) can play a major role in making this situation a reality for the CIO.
The secret of success of OCM is its extreme focus on the human angle, that is traditionally often ignored during technology changes. i.e., to manage changes successfully, we need to deeply understand the human impact of the change. To get the desired result, we should ensure that the manner of change is in alignment with the employees and their behavior, and indeed with the company’s culture and values. The change has to be envisioned at the level of an individual employee.

Organizations that realize that "a change that fails or succeeds depends truly on how the human impact is managed", consider OCM as critical as the change itself.
If you are a CXO, has an organization of more than 250 employees and is growing on a 35% growth annually, plans to expand across geographies, is looking for an ERP or SAP application to be introduced into your organization or has a volatile process and policy department, OCM is a MUST HAVE in this era of speed for adoption and reduction of effort, financial wastage due to resistance. :-)

Sunday, July 1, 2012

On the sets: The climax shot of Annun Innum Ennum and it was touching!

This blog is again on  Annum Innum Ennum movie about which I wrote a few days back has a path breaking story line.

Rajesh Nair and Usha Rajesh have put their soul into the movie being released under the banner of Vaya Films. The story is about a couple who got married 20 years back and another couple who got married very recently. The story revolves around how husbands lose interest in their wives, look for greener pastures and..... Ah! Well, I am not supposed to give away the story. It is for you to go to the theatres in August and watch the movie :)

On the sets I happened to meet Rekha, the Malayalam actor who did blockbusters like "Aye Auto" (1990), "Dasharatham" with Mohanlal a few years back. Rekha is playing the role of the wife to actor, producer and television anchor Siddique (whose movie career started in late 10980's). She has a bold shade to her character with who many wives will identify with. She takes off the facade of her husband and brings out the cheater in him! I did see the shot taken for the climax of the movie and the entire unit applauded actor Rekha's extremely emotional and bold delivery of her dialogues. Very touching! :)

In the movie, Jishnu Raghavan, B.Tech from NIT Calicut, son of veteran actor Raghavan and got himself launched with the super hit Malayalam film "Nammal" (2002). He comes with a very new and different look (all hairs J) is married to actor Radhika, who shot to fame with her character Razia in movie "Classmates" 2006. Jishnu's character is a writer who shot to fame with his first novel but fails to take off after his initial fame.

His wife works in a private firm and runs the household on her own. She admires and sees a perfect man in her boss played by Nishaan, who made his debut in Malayalam movie "Ritu". In fact, Nishaan character has a gray shade too which comes out in the later part of the movie. Jishu's character too gets drawn away from his wife to their new neighbor played by the glamorous Tashu Kaushik, joining Malayalam films through Annum Innum Ennum after making a mark in Tollywood and a stint in Bollywood.

In short, Annum Innum Ennum talks about man-woman chemistry, wife-husband trust (or betrayal), how what is seen is not the obvious and all is not always well in your neighbor’s house (or with his wife) ;).

To see how Rajesh Nair and team (includes friends like Shivan G Nair, Jolly Johnson who know each other from their Rotaract days) have woven these characters along with roles played by senior actors like Ashokan, Thilakan, Salim Kumar amongst others, you should go and WATCH the movie in theatres in the month of August.

This movie will answer a few questions we ask each other, ourselves about the sanctity of marriage, so called trust between partners and why one should understand we are all married to our partners for a reason... reason could be many and any... yet Then, Now and Forever... Annum, Innum, Ennum... with every generation, it is the same cycle of life... life of lies... life of realization and life moves on!

Today when all of us say "I love you" to our partners… some silently vow "I will lie to you"... Watch Annum Innum Ennum in August! :) :) Rest on the silver screen…

Source of information on all actors and films: WikiPedia