Cultural Change White Paper Selected as Semi-Finalist by itSMF USA

CastlePointe White Paper, "Making Change Stick" Selected in International Contest

Newport Beach, CA (PRWEB) June 14, 2010 -- CastlePointe today announced that their white paper entitled, “Making Change Stick” has been selected as one of five U.S. semi-finalists in itSMF International’s first annual white paper contest.  Selected by itSMF USA from a national call for submissions, the white paper is now one of 19 international submissions being considered by itSMF International.

By offering real-world, non-IT examples of barriers and solutions, it describes concrete techniques that IT can use to overcome the barriers to change.

“It is an honor to have been selected and I look forward to having the white paper published,” commented CastlePointe President and Managing Consultant and white paper author, Charles Araujo.  “It is gratifying that our white paper is being recognized, as it represents our fundamental approach to transforming IT organizations.  We’re excited to share our ideas and approaches with the industry and hope that they help IT organizations everywhere affect lasting change.”

“Making Change Stick” describes the challenges of creating lasting cultural change in IT organizations and relates it to common human barriers to change.  By offering real world, non-IT examples of barriers and solutions, it describes concrete techniques that IT can use to overcome the barriers to change.  It describes how to resolve key issues commonly found with transformation and process improvement efforts such as:

• Why executive sponsors are rarely used effectively, and how to change it
• How to build bridges between functional silos to overcome political barriers
• How to drive behavioral change within the organization through team structures
• Why efforts typically slow down after start-up and how to use a shadow governance structure to keep things moving
• Why personal investment and leadership gaps are two of the biggest challenges to transformation, and how you can overcome them

The white paper will be made public after the completion of the itSMF International contest and will be available through itSMF International, as well as to CastlePointe clients.  For more information, please visit http://www.castlepointe.com.

About CastlePointe

Headquartered in Newport Beach, CA, CastlePointe is a premier provider of strategic IT consulting services to Fortune 2000 firms. Uniquely focused on leading its clients through successful IT transformation initiatives, CastlePointe operates nationally from offices in California, New Jersey and Tennessee.  Using our proprietary DeepRoots™ methodology, we help large IT organizations reduce costs, improve service levels and performance, drive efficiency, build operational scalability and evolve their organizations to the next level.
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