title: Organizational issues = change.
abstract: Information systems fail for a number of reasons. Several failure reasons include communication, complexity, organization, technology, and leadership. Failure can be outlined in four major categories: technical shortcomings, project management shortcomings, organizational issues, and the continuing information explosion. Change management is the process of assisting individuals and organizations in passing from an old way of doing things to a new way of doing things. Change management starts early in a technical process, as the need for making major changes starts at the conceptual level. This paper briefly covers the people side of implementing new information systems, and describes resistance to change and various strategies to manage technological change.
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Informatics, Eskind Biomedical Library, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2209 Garland Avenue, Nashville, TN 37232-8340, USA. nancy.lorenzi@vanderbilt.edu
authors.forename: Nancy M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Lorenzi
authors.forename: Robert T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Riley
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008490:Medical Informatics; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D013597:Systems Analysis