To successfully complete this week's discussion, you will need to refer to Chapter 6, "Culture," in your Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence textbook. Please respond to the following in a substantive post (3–4 paragraphs): Explain the primary reasons project management causes a cultural change. Describe the impact of that cultural change on integrative information technology. Provide at least one example of a cultural change that project management can cause. Be sure to provide full citations and references, formatted according to Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Please respond substantively to at least one other post (1–2 paragraphs).

Choose to respond to those who have few or no responses. In your response to your classmate, consider questions such as the following: What is something you learned from reading your classmate's post? What is something reading your classmate's post confirmed for you? What is a question you have about your classmate's post? What is a resource you would recommend to your classmate about the relationship between cultural change and project management?

Answer:

Explain the primary reasons project management causes a cultural change?

Change management is a systematic approach to dealing with change both from the perspective of an organization and the individual.

A somewhat ambiguous term, change management has at least three different aspects, including: adapting to change,

controlling change, and effecting change. A proactive approach to dealing with change is at the core of all three aspects.

Describe the impact of that cultural change on integrative information technology?

Culture is recognized as an important factor influencing the development, deployment, and use of information systems in households and organizations as well as in the public sector. The rich concept of culture relates to the organizational, professional, and national attitudes, values, goals, and practices of the respective actors involved. Cultural intelligence is a key capability for avoiding problems and ensuring a proper fit among the constitutional elements of information systems: individuals, tasks, and information technology.

Professionals from different nations with differing cultural backgrounds and capabilities have continuously increased their level of cooperation in order to develop and deploy new systems and services. The success of global software projects, for instance, largely depends on managing the cultural diversity of the professionals involved.

In the use phase, cultural values embedded in the system deployed by a vendor may differ significantly from the cultural characteristics of the client organization. The underlying business or service processes supported span many boundaries of systems and organizations. Accordingly, the cultural diversity of the system’s users and a variety of other stakeholders needs to be taken into account