Joey Murphy, a Principal with Stantec, joins us to discuss the results of a white paper prepared in collaboration with Bluefield Research on organizational change management (OCM) for water utilities. Joey delves into the key aspects of this sneaky important subject. Plus, Reese Tisdale joins us for another Bluefield on Tap segment addressing the contours of the U.S. pipe market.
In this session, you’ll learn about:
- Joey’s wide-ranging experience in the water utility sector
- What organizational change management is for water utilities
- The issues that are causing the need for organizational change management in the water utility sector
- How utilities need to approach adaptation to manage change within their organizations
- Why getting employee buy-in early and often is key to long-term success
- Strategies to get employee buy-in early
- How to incorporate principles to ensure the needed change “sticks” and employees don’t revert to the way it’s always been done
- Why training personnel on new methodologies alone is not enough
- Why Joey thinks the implementation of organizational change management starts with middle management
- The impact of technological change on organizational change management
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