Change Management IT exists to equip change management teams to support perpetual enterprise change; creating an agile enterprise. Learn more about it here…

Introduction

Change Management IT is a broad category of application software used to facilitate enterprise change and improvement.  It helps organizations to adapt to change by anticipating needs, modifying or displacing incumbent software applications.  In the context of application software development, change management involves tracking and managing changes to artefacts, such as code and requirements as part of software development life-cycle (SDLC).

How Organizational Change ‘Has Changed’

At one time, an organizational change was a rare thing.  Business models rarely altered and the structure of organizations – i.e. how organizational structures were designed and resourced – had no need to change.  Once people were assigned roles in the organization, they rarely moved beyond their role or department. Not today.  The business models organizations operate are changing frequently and rapidly.

This is because, in a digital age, the structure of markets and the nature of competition.  Many new forms of competition emerge from beyond the traditional players in any given market.  We are seeing retailers selling holidays, telecoms contracts and financial services products, utilities and automotive manufacturers selling data and online retailers selling everything!  In such a tumultuous market for products and services, suppliers have to respond to change faster.  This means organizations are facing near-constant organizational restructuring.

It’s not just people and processes, but technology too is having to adapt faster and more often to change.  This means traditional IT platforms are being displaced by Low Code or Codeless enterprise software application platforms that are designed to adapt to change constantly, and offer productivity enabling tooling to serve the needs of change managers orchestrating change.

How Change Management IT Differs to Traditional Enterprise IT

Enterprise IT created for Systems of Record use cases – such as Financial, Manufacturing Resource Planning, Human Capital Management, and Customer Relationship Management software – is designed to impose best practice approaches to commonly performed business-critical processes within the enterprise.  It is unusual for Systems-of-Record applications to deliver a competitive advantage because they fundamentally install common blueprints and ways of working that all competitors in a market end up supporting. In contrast, change management software exists to stay in-tune with enterprise needs for information processing as business models evolve over time.

The digital age has seen a dramatic increase in the pace of change in business model designs.  Whereas firms a decade ago wouldn’t change their business model more than once in a decade, today, organizations will review business model designs at least once every two years, if not more.

Advantages of Change Management IT

Change Management IT equips individuals or departments charged with business improvement – and command over the change management process within an enterprise – with the necessary tools to evolve information systems and to support the change process itself. 

It brings the following benefits to adopting businesses:

  • Faster pace of change
  • Lower cost transformations in IT systems
  • Less organizational friction
  • Greater democratization of IT
  • More adaptive IT
  • Improvement competitiveness through faster-time-to-market of new customer value propositions, together with lower operating costs through more efficient systems and processes (and less manual processing)

About Encanvas

Encanvas is an enterprise software company that specializes in Change Management IT, helping businesses to create above and beyond customer experiences.

From Low Code to Codeless

Better than code-lite and low-code, we created the first no code (codeless) enteprise application platform to release creative minds from the torture of having to code or script applicationsLive Wireframe

Use Encanvas in your software development lifecycle to remove the barrier between IT and the business. Coding and scripting is the biggest reason why software development has been traditionally unpredictable, costly and unable to produce best-fit software results. Encanvas uniquely automates coding and scripting. Our live wireframing approach means that business analysts can create the apps you need in workshops, working across the desk with users and stakeholders.

AppFabric

When it comes to creating apps to create a data culture and orchestrate your business model, there’s no simpler way to instal and operate your enterprise software platform than AppFabric. Every application you create on AppFabric adds yet more data to your single-version-of-the-truth data insights. That’s because, we’ve designed AppFabric to create awesome enterprise apps that use a common data management substrate, so you can architect and implement an enterprise master data management plan.

Customer Data Platform

Encanvas supplies a private-cloud Customer Data Platform that equips businesses with the means to harvest their customer and commercial data from all sources, cleanse and organize it, and provide tooling to leverage its fullest value in a secure, regulated way. We provide a retrofittable solution that bridges across existing data repositories and cleanses and organizes data to present a useful data source. Then it goes on to make data available 24×7 in a regulated way to authorized internal stakeholders and third parties to ensure adherence to data protection and FCA regulatory standards.

Encanvas Secure&Live

Encanvas Secure and Live (‘Secure&Live’) is a High-Productivity application Platform-as-a-Service. It’s an enterprise applications software platform that equips businesses with the tools they need to design, deploy applications at low cost. It achieves this by removing coding and scripting tasks and the overheads of programming applications. Unlike its rivals, Encanvas Secure&Live is completely codeless (not just Low-Code), so it removes the barriers between IT and the business. Today, you just need to know that it’s the fastest (and safest) way to design, deploy and operate enterprise applications.

Learn more by visiting www.encanvas.com.

The Author

Mason Alexander is a senior consultant specializing in helping organizational leadership teams to grow by implementing enterprise software platforms that improve data visibility, process agility; and organizational learning – creating an enterprise that learns and adapts faster. He writes on subjects of change management, organizational design, rapid development applications software, and data science. He can be contacted via his LinkedIn profile.

Further reading

Article on Top 10 change management software applications.

Wikipedia article on Change Management

Wikipedia article on Situational Applications

Academic paper on Situational Applications

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