Press Release: APMG launches collaboration with Changefirst

Thursday, 3 July, 2014

APMG launches collaboration with Changefirst to offer Enterprise Change Management Platform, e-change® to ACO's

APMG International and Changefirst Ltd are partnering to deliver the e-change® Enterprise Change Management Platform to all APMG Accredited Consulting Organisations (ACOs). ACOs will use e-change to provide change management consulting to their clients and as part of this will be able to licence clients as e-change users.

“We aim to extend our support to the consulting community by bringing to market a leading-edge toolkit that allows organizations to plan, execute and track their change projects. It will significantly help them ensure projects are in line with the business needs to deliver required benefits”, said Eddie Kilkelly, APMG International.

The launch event was held on Wednesday 2nd July at the Park Plaza Hotel in London and will be followed by another launch event in Sydney later in the year to promote this collaboration to Australian ACOs and bringing to market this unique enterprise platform.

"This product is definitely different. The value it has for me is that it allows project managers to use this change management tool effectively and implement change even if they are not change management experts. It is practical and can be implemented easily irrespective of the scale of the project- big or small” said Darius Johnson, Pcubed, at the London event.

“One of the biggest challenges for organizations today is creating and maintaining the capabilities to change. e-change® allows them to implement more change, more successfully”, said David Miller, CEO - Changefirst. “For nearly 20 years we have offered face-to-face change management training to clients. We developed e-change because we wanted to make all our training, tools and databases available to a much wider audience. We wanted to offer clients the consistency, convenience, scalability and cost-effectiveness that an online platform can give to organizations. ACOs will be able to win some business with this world-class application”.

e-change provides a cost-effective way of learning a proven change methodology online. Users can identify project adoption risks and get suggested tactics to manage project risks and can benchmark their change project against a global change database. Project plans can be aligned with the preferred project framework like PMI, Prince 2 or DMAIC.

“Everything comes together in the e-change planner, where users can track and manage people risks by fetching in data from risk assessments and build robust action plans that can be assigned and shared with colleagues”, explains Nathan Brewer, Operations Manager – Changefirst.

“We’re quite excited because we see a real need for this product with our clients”, said Piotr Kotelnicki, CEO from the Polish ACO, Devoteam.

You can download the full press release here.