# Change management

Any proposal for change must follow these steps:

1. Current conditions: explain what the current situation is, including issues, special circumstances or resources. This may also involve SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats).
2. Proposed change: explain why a change is needed to address the issues above, and what that change should be, what is needed, who, what, and when
3. Evaluate change: did the change solve the issues in (1) above? If not, what is needed further?
4. Cycle back: on a regular basis, re-evaluate the current conditions: are the same conditions present? What further changes need to be made?

<div id="bkmrk--1">  
</div><div id="bkmrk-the-reason-this-is-s">The reason this is so important is many changes in organizations are done addressing an issue, with no sense of the cause and effect of past decisions.</div><div id="bkmrk-re-evaluating-any-ch">Re-evaluating any change on a regular basis forces decision makers to recognize that conditions always change, and the reasoning behind decisions.</div><div id="bkmrk-this-is-sometimes-ca">This is sometimes called "institutional memory"</div>---

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