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This article is about the principles of model building and implementation developed by one highly successful 20th century expert and why they work.

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Why is it important?

With astonishingly high project failure rates the norm today managers (i.e., up to 70%), it is essential to learn how to build useful models that actually help mangers to make decisions.

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When I worked as a successful OD/Change Management consultant in the decades prior to becoming an academic, I expected to succeed in every project my clients hired me to undertake. As a result, when as an academic I read about the staggering failure rates routinely experienced by project leaders it came as a great surprise. So, I wrote this article with the goal of providing non-OD folks with insights into the highly effective principles of model building created by one of my mentors, Professor John D. C. Little of the MIT Sloan School, and why they work from a change management perspective.

Dr. Robert E. Levasseur
Walden University

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This page is a summary of: People Skills: Building Analytics Decision Models That Managers Use—A Change Management Perspective, INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, August 2015, INFORMS,
DOI: 10.1287/inte.2015.0798.
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