Mia week 6 Team

STRATEGIES THAT FACILITATE INFLUENCING POWER

Acel Rx Pharmaceuticals Inc. has always provided quality service to its clients but the adoption of an online drugstore is a project that could make the services even better. However, various measures have to be put into place to facilitate the success of the project.

Strategies to Adapt Organizational Change

To adopt the online marketing and networking with customers then the Acel Rx Pharmaceuticals Inc. has to undergo some organizational change. Though the internet is the Internet could enable profound changes in the nature and structure of the healthcare industry and, ultimately, the delivery of healthcare services its adaptions should be strategic. First, there is need to carry out the change in phases with the start-up phase being clarifying the expectations and roles, assessing readiness, contracts and getting buy-in. In this phase is usually where the relationship between you (the initial change agent) and your client starts, whether you are an external or internal consultant. This means that Acel has to establish who its clients actually are, define the project conduct field research on the opinions of the customers after which they have to make the customers feel the problem at hand and the need to adopt this new technology which is aimed at making things better. It is important that the change agent should have good communication skills both verbal and non-verbal and a good listener.

Second in line is a joint discovery to identify priorities for change. The more collaborative the change agent is in working with the clients of the organization the more likely that the change will be successfully adapted. This means active involvement of clients in data collection, analysis, and recommendation making processes (Rozman, Draghici, and Riel, 2017). This will help connect with the patients easier since the organization will have a proper understanding of this patient and the minute challenges that are faced.

Thirdly is to involve the clients in organizational development activities to address the priorities in order to adopt internet putting into consideration all the challenges that will come alongside the change from the manual system to the digital system. Being on par with the clients who are the most affected by the planned shift is an advantage.

Communication Strategy

The success of any project is dependent on how information traverses from one stakeholder to the other. It will be necessary to employ the following communication channels. Hallway discussions, Bathroom discussions – these conferences are vast for one on one communication, but also are clear and do not establish false expectations with casual comments dropped. Lunch conferences, drink at the bar after works provide casual environments that can be great for connecting, getting feedback, ideas, and work to build support. Sporting events such as tennis, golf, etc. are an easy forum to get the input on what support exists, feedback on ideas, maintain inspiration to support your communication and build stakeholder support (Howard, 2015). Voicemail is frequently underutilized as email is so ordinary but still exposed to be additional frequently listened to than an email will be read. By using voice inflection for animation, necessity, etc. it can be more compelling. This can be a solo voice mail, voice mails transmit to great group or you could follow the use of automatic vocation to get the word out depending on the dimension of the audience.

Grapevines within an institution are very important and should be enhanced among members without victimization. This is the only way the managerial team implementing this project will be able to know what the existing workers in Acel feel about the idea of adapting the internet and networking.

Motivational Strategy

Rewards and incentives always increase the morale of various parties in an organization. It would be efficient for Acel to inform the clients that there will be rewards for the retailers with the highest sells. Also, it would also work to the success of the project to reward the patients who invite more patients to use the online drugstore. This incentive could be earning a discount or non-monetary rewards like a pack of the drugs.

Control Strategy/Project Evaluation

Constant evaluation of the project to ensure that the project attains its technical performance, schedule and cost objectives is necessary. Therefore a team has to be chosen to evaluate the project before it starts, also to ensure constant oversight of the ongoing project in case of issues like website technicalities, hacking of the system or complexities in using this new system and act accordingly. The team should keep proper records to ensure an exact match of the budgets.

Project Scheduling

Time and meeting the deadline for the implementation time of the project is necessary. Therefore the managerial team in Acel will have to do backward planning categorizing the parallel tasks, the predecessor tasks, and dependent tasks while assessing time durations that should include slack time. Creating traffic for the website may pose a challenge in terms of numbers, therefore, to avoid inconveniences time cater for delays. Strict adherence to the critical path from the introduction to the public launching of the website should be noted.

Budget Control

Budgeting is also very important with empirical evidence of good results from the companies that incorporated proper budgets in their projects. A budget is important if it is timely .the managerial team has to conduct regular evaluations of the budget based on the actual costs, cost variance earned value, planned value then after completing a check is to be done on return on investment and this should include random revisits. Additionally, as the project goes on the managerial team has to consult the stakeholders on what the feel.

Input and Output Quality

Any economically feasible project ensures that the amount of output per unit input generates several units of profits even after catering for variable and constants costs. In this case, the web designs and labor should be proportional to the profit that the project will earn. The output quality should match the shareholder's expectations and the managerial team should work hard towards the quality output (Hitchcock and Willard, 2009). Not only does the quality of output determine the financial stability of the firm but also can build or destroy the market for the products based on reputation. This will be achieved by constant monitoring of the website, continuous improvements on the gaps of the new system, customer feedbacks, and mistake proofing.

Change Management Strategy

Only a fool would do the same thing again using the same method and of course the in the similar means and anticipate dissimilar outcomes. There are four main features of change management in every institution: dissatisfaction in the results, a vision, strategies to implement the change and the resistance to the change. The best strategies to employ are as follows: familiarize the workers with change, the use of internet and they can state the efficiency and the flaws that need to be addressed. This will enable to know what attitude they hold for the online drugstore idea. Then, there is need to communicate with the employees who are the facilitators of the project and show the urgency for making the online marketing and services. Since all parties may not share the same interest then there is need to choose a team of the employees who are interested and obligate them to enhance teamwork. There is the possibility of resistance and since every party is important problem solving and the management team should be able to set aside ways to deal with risks and inconveniences as well as impromptu situations. Additionally, there is need to take care of the emotional, political or any other issue come up. The managerial team could also create short video clips to demonstrate how to use the website in making orders or any service.

Scope Management

The managerial team for the implementation of the project should come up with a clear-cut outline of the tasks that each individual has to perform in order to facilitate the success of the project (Swayne, Duncan and Ginter, 2012). Then scheming and checking processes while focusing on documenting tracking, scope creeps, tracking, and disapproving/approving project changes. Lastly, an audit of the project deliverables and an assessment of the outcomes of the original plan should be done.

The success of any project is the goal of the managerial team and the company as well. However, it does not come on a silver platter there is need to involve all stakeholders and not just involving but getting them to participate in the implementation. The success of a project depends also on the ability to monitor the project, strict adherence to time and budgets. With all this put into consideration, the online drugstore by Acel will be a viable force in the pharmaceuticals industry.

References

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