“Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly, it is worth the risk.”
Leo Buscaglia
  Change management programme to combat employee resistance for new technology.
Change Management, Different IT Consulting
Change management means:
Managing the process of implementing major changes in IT, business processes, organizational structures, and job assignments to reduce the risks and costs of change, and to optimize its benefits. Change management is focused on the issues of managing the resistance and discomfort experienced by people in an organization when new processes or technology are introduced.

Organizational change
Organizational change is an important aspect that we consider must be carefully managed and orchestrated.
It is true that when organizations face change, people may resist the change. Experience has also shown us that resistance is prevalent in various forms as all people handle change differently. It is the proactive identification and implementation of change management in its various forms that will determine whether the organization is in a position to accommodate that change.
We encourage executive commitment and participation throughout the implementation, pre and post.

Below are a few steps as to how we believe change should be managed:
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Define the need for change
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Define how change is going to affect all in the organization
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Communicate the benefits of change and how people will grow and develop with the new change. By this we mean to create the buy in of all participants
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Design programmes that will address all concerns with regard to change
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Manage change and offer feedback once the project is complete that describes the ‘goods’ and ‘not-so-goods’ of the project and what should be done to improve the situation
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Business Process Re-engineering must be addressed in the analysis and design phases of the project. It is very important that the technology is geared around good business processes and practices. The problem is that if we add technology to a bad business process, all we will get is a fast bad process. Technology is there to help businesses operate, more simply, faster and more accurate and if the business is not working effectively and efficiently, technology will not help

Motivation
Most Change Management Programmes have to do with companies and processes.
We believe our Change Management Programme to be stronger and therefore more aligned for success, due to the fact that we are focusing on the individual rather than on the institution.
The commitment of each individual will ensure success of the project.

Conclusion
Most leaders familiarized with the change know that people matter.

Companies will reap the rewards of change programmes only when change occurs at the level of the individual employee.

“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” - Alan Cohen

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