FEASIBILITY of CHANGE-X = (Priority minus resources required)
More feasibility means more confidence in the decision

Priority framework

Priority = risk plus desires plus impact plus operational efficiency improvements

1. Low
2. Medium
3. High
4. BURNING

Degree of Difficulty & Resources Required

• Social capital
  • Inside org (champ convincing ppl to use Jabber instead of Slack)
  • Outside org (Requirement of another person outside of the org to learn something new for CHANGE-X to work)
• Money (USD, GBP, EUR)
• Technical Support
  • Sustained
  • Ad hoc
• Time (months, years, decades, centuries)
• Organizational change (requires operations, workflows, and other techno-structural change)
  • Never done anything like CHANGE-X before
  • Number of people whose behavior must change for CHANGE-X to succeed
  • Frequency of organizational change in similar areas
  • Work must stop or slow for a specific period of time to roll out CHANGE-X
  • Understanding and commitment to value of CHANGE-X
• Resource rejuvenators (reduces resources required)
  • High commitment and clear value alignment
  • Higher capacity of personnel
• Individual knowledge required to do their part in the change
  • Complexity of change(difficulty of acheiving behavior change)
  • Complexity of the resulting process (difficulty of workflow/process)
• Degree of difference from partners, peers, and others' practices

Metaphor: Google Maps route planner for organizational change, arrive by, departure time, walking versus driving

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