One theme running through the conference this week is the Change Funding Gap.
There is a massive disparity between what it costs to guide change effectively and what is budgeted for. The knowledge of the complexities and the time needed for change and the American, at least, insistence on short term timing.
The time needed for change
This is as much a factor of the period it takes for individuals to move to a change as it is for filling in all the blanks of the process. My own critical push here is that many of the firms and practitioners out there out wasting some of that precious time with their model checks and tasks.
The budgeting
Client awareness, at the senior level because that is the true lasting budget area, is the biggest, but maybe the easiest way to fill in the gap. My add in is that change management can actually save money in places rather than cost. If change management is part of the operational structure savings can be had.
