Industrialization and standardization - implement it with CMMI, ITIL and Change Management

Industrialization and standardization are in many companies on the agenda right now. Two ingredients are crucial to its success: good practices (such as CMMI, SPICE, and ITIL) and a systematic change management. They make it much easier to succeed.

Why is industrialization and standardization important? Management must increase the efficiency and effectiveness. Customers want a reliable and repeatable performance. They want that a team A performs as well as a team B. Middle management needs the projects to go smoothly - they simply do not have the time for too many escalations. The employees want to rely on each other, and they want commitment for plans and resources from all participants.

Why are best practices important? They give a good picture of the activities that characterize an organization if it works well. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. A project that will implement industrialization and standardization would start literally on the wrong foot when it would ignore the experience and standards of the industry.

Why is change management important? Because it provides the best practices for change and business transformation.

So anyone who implements industrialization and standardization, should take advantage of the two major tools - best practices and change management - if he wants to be successful.