Change Management is becoming a growth industry involving many methods, tools and external consultants. Most of these try to facilitate communications that should be a natural part of how people collaborate.

Unfortunately most of these methods, tools, and external consultants add additional complexity to an already complex situation. A simple tool is urgently needed that significantly reduces complexity by providing the right information to the right people at the right time, without the need for external assistance.

A core requirement of change management is clearly communicating: why change is needed; what needs to happen; what you need to do, when and with whom; progress; and issues that affect you. When these are communicated clearly, you can more easily work out how you feel about the change and how you can best contribute.

TASKey has developed a software tool (called Me2Team) that sorts out information about a change on a need-to-know basis; satisfies the common request to "just tell me what I need to do"; reports progress; and keeps stakeholders informed about issues that affect them. The alternatives are for stakeholders to waste a lot of time and effort finding and sorting this information themselves, or to employ external assistance to track, analyse and communicate this information for them.

A simple action planning template (as used in over 175 countries) shows the actions that need to be done for tasks involved in the change. Then relevant actions are used to populate each user’s To Do list. Progress is driven by To Do’s completed. This cuts through real-life complexity and focuses users on the actions they need to do.

Responsibility, delegation, and accountability are clear, so people are encouraged to get actions done when and where they are required. Me2Team web and mobile software provides anywhere any time access, so focus and timely decisions are maintained.

TASKey’s "Me2Team" software makes managing and communicating change management requirements easy. Most importantly, Me2Team aligns each stakeholder’s work with strategies, projects, processes and tasks; shows each person what they need to do; and makes it easier for people to collaborate to get work done – without the need for external assistance.

For more information visit www.taskey.com or www.me2team.com