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Assessing Project Success: Comparing Integral Change Management and Change Management
Published April 2008.

Mohamed Saleh Hammoud

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Graduate Faculty of the School of Business and Technology

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Managers achieve their long-term business goals or objectives through strategies. They undertake projects to realize these strategies. However, in global businesses, only 2.5% of projects fully succeed. Researchers found empirical evidence that the high failure rate of projects is because managers are not implementing projects that align with the business strategy. Many researchers have posited as to the possible affects of implementing projects not aligned with the business strategy to the poor alignment between business strategies and project management. Others emphasized the role of change as a key to the survival of the organizations. Many others emphasized the important role of change management as a key to project success. However, none has studied the relationship between change management process or integrated change management process and project success. Furthermore, no known research has been conducted to test if project success in organizations who implement integrated change management process exceeds project success in organizations who implement change management process. The researcher focused on these aspects in the research.

The researcher found two reliable, linear, and positive correlations between project success and change management process from one hand and project success and management process achieved higher project success rates as measured by adherence to project scope, project time, project cost and stakeholders' satisfaction than those who implemented a

integrated change management process from the other. The research findings also confirmed the hypothesis that organizations who implemented a traditional change management process.

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