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How to Successfully Transition to a New Work Model: The Leader's Guide
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Poorly managed projects can completely throw off
timelines and budgets, increasing the disruptiveness of
your transition and potentially forcing you to pivot your
plans. Changing the work model employees use in even a
single ofce building requires numerous projects involving
administrators, IT personnel, facilities teams, managers,
and external vendors.
You may need to set up or remove workstations, install
furniture or equipment, recongure oors or rooms, and
manage construction projects. If you're rolling out a new
work model across your entire portfolio, this creates an
overwhelming number of moving pieces, from planning
your use of capital and tracking actual spend versus
budget, to collaborating with vendors and contractors, to
coordinating with IT and facilities management teams,
and more.
Move management and capital program management are
distinct parts of your transition from one work model to
another, and they each become more essential at scale.
Traditional project management solutions simply aren't
built for these specialized processes, and organizations
often have to develop their own cumbersome systems.
With each of these project-related problems, the challenge
comes down to a lack of centralization. The information
you need lives in too many locations (often in spreadsheets
and disparate communication channels), making it
difcult to see the big picture, coordinate with other
parties, and conrm statuses.
Coordinate projects eciently