Webinar | Why Integrating Change Management and Project Management is Your Key to Repeatable Project Success

This webinar is a part of the EDUCAUSE Industry Insights series.

IT leaders are navigating a perfect storm of challenges—compressed transformation timelines, budget constraints, organizational realignments, and increasingly complex stakeholder demands. Despite robust project management practices, even technically flawless implementations fail to deliver expected results when the people side of change is overlooked.

This webinar will show you how integrating change management with project management creates a powerful framework for driving successful IT initiatives in higher education. Drawing on Colorado State University's real-world experience and Prosci's research-backed methodology, we'll explore strategies tailored to higher education's unique environment—including faculty governance systems, decentralized decision-making, and diverse academic stakeholders.

Discover how this integration drives accelerated adoption, reduced resistance, maximized technology investments, and sustained implementation success. Leave with actionable next steps for incorporating change management best practices on your active projects and a desire to build change capability and transform how your institution navigates technology change.

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify critical integration points between project management and change management that deliver measurable adoption gains in higher education IT initiatives.
• Apply the ADKAR® Model to address specific adoption challenges in academic environments, including faculty resistance and governance constraints.
• Build a framework for assessing missing success factors in your current project methodology.
• Understand next steps for developing change capability within your institution's IT organization.