Your role in this project is to identify a specific change driver that you consider especially relevant to an organisation of your choice and to apply the theoretical principles discussed in this module to the specification of an appropriate process that will successfully respond to the demands of that change driver.

You are encouraged to use your own current employer, and its current operating environment, as a base for the preparation of this project. It is, however, permissible to use an alternative organisation with which you are sufficiently familiar.

Prepare and submit a final version of your project report that contains the following sections:

• Organisational Profile: what is the name of the organisation you propose to use, where is it located, what is its primary business and approximately how many staff does it employ?
• Organisational Structure: how are human and other resources arranged within this organisation, what levels of seniority exist and how are those levels of seniority connected through formal reporting lines? (A structure diagram would be useful here.) To what extent is the decision process centralised in the senior management team, and to what extent is it devolved to lower levels in the organisation?
• Change Drivers: What are the factors in either or both of the external or internal operating environments, which suggest a significant element of change, are needed to the way in which this organisation works?
• Key Stakeholders: who are the individuals, groups and organisations who will be most directly affected by the type of change that is indicated by change driver analysis?
• Change Initiative Overview: what is the primary aim of the change initiative that you recommend be introduced, and how should this initiative be classified?
• Key Success Factors: what specific factors and/or influences will you need to take into account in order to ensure maximum chances of a successful implementation, and what are the principal implications of those factors on the way that your change initiative is designed?
• Change Initiative Process: what process will you follow to ensure that the planned change initiative is successfully implemented within the allocated time span? What steps will you include in this process in order to enhance the chances of success in this project? To what extent will technology be used in the implementation of this process?
• Stakeholder Reactions: to what extent do you expect each stakeholder’s reaction to be positive or negative? How do you plan to deal with those reactions? What ethical considerations will need to be taken into account during this process?
• Evaluation and Assessment: how will you measure the extent to which the project is deemed to be successful, and when will this evaluation be carried out?
• Your final Module Project report should be approximately 2,000-2,500 words in length