Obstacles for Organizational Change
In the implementation of change where it is needed, organizations experience obstacles. These obstacles include risks and biases; risks are obstacles that can be seen by others, whereas biases are personal and internalized obstacles. In many cases, risks result in losses on account of unreliability (Haddaway et al. 2015). For instance, operational risk occurs when a system used in the organization fails and ends up causing a negative impact on the analysis. On the other hand, organizational bias shows up when factors like leadership and team organization influence the selection and use of data to determine where choice does not depend on merit, thus causing a negative impact on the analysis.
In minimizing the resistance to the use of analytics-based decision making, a senior leader can present the employees with evidence on how decisions are prepared with the aim of convincing them (Akter et al., .2019). The evidence may involve analytics of the competitors of the organization, including the unfavorable reviews of the competitors. These help organizations adjust positively to beat their competitors. This evidence is enough to minimize resistance and motivate employees to work better to make the organization outshine its competitors.
References
Akter, S., Bandara, R., Hani, U., Wamba, S. F., Foropon, C., & Papadopoulos, T. (2019). Analytics-based decision-making for service systems: A qualitative study and agenda for future research. International Journal of Information Management, 48, 85-95.
Haddaway, N. R., Woodcock, P., Macura, B., & Collins, A. (2015). Making literature reviews more reliable through application of lessons from systematic reviews. Conservation Biology, 29(6), 1596-1605.