➢It Makes Complex Information Manageable:

• The visual clarity that a Gantt chart provides can help simplify a complex set of tasks. The chart displays tasks clearly and simply for the people who must do the work. Such transparency enables team members to stay focused and avoid becoming overwhelmed by a large number of tasks.

It Motivates Team Members:

Gantt chart enables team members to visualize their tasks, thereby motivating them to do their work on the project. Team members can view the project moving forward and watch other members completing their tasks. The chart also shows how certain tasks can’t begin until another task is completed. All that visibility enables people to complete their tasks well and on time.

Network plan

Following are the main steps in efficient network plan

➢Orient the project.

• Organize the project and ensures that it is well defined, clearly understood, and realistically scheduled. The project team members begin by identifying the project's objectives and scope. They then try to understand all of the issues connected with the problem to be solved and identify the elements to be modeled. Finally, they document and rate the significance of the planning issues, and then create a schedule for the network analysis, complete with deadlines.

➢Define the Variables

• Involves defining relevant constraints, documenting assumptions, and writing any formulas or algebraic expressions that will be used to model the network. Constraints are physical limitations or policies that restrict the capacities and capabilities of locations and lanes and their resources. Assumptions are descriptions of typical or anticipated conditions that are used to clarify the model's scope, simplify the model, and/or describe the manner in which some variables will be treated.

➢Analyze the Sensitivities

• The ultimate purpose of this step is to validate the model. Validation compares the model's results to the actual performance of the current network for the modeled period. This exercise builds credibility. The smaller the variance, the more accurate the model— and the greater the acceptance of the model's results. Notes and explanations on the worksheet explain any changes that were made to the model and the reasons for the variances between its results and the network's actual performance.

➢Create Scenario

• The planners develop scenarios that represent alternative network plans. Each scenario makes one or more of the following changes to the baseline model

• adding or deleting products or locations

• adding or deleting resources

• adding or deleting transportation lanes

• changing which locations serve which customer demand

• changing network flows and sources of supply

• adding or relaxing constraints

➢ Evaluate the Alternatives

• In this step the planners evaluate the alternative network plans that were developed in Step 4, and those involved in decision making compare and select the most preferred plan evaluation using the Alternatives Analysis Worksheet, typically takes two forms:

• Cost analysis—comparing relevant costs among the scenarios and their network plans.

• Intangible analysis—considering factors that cannot be easily modeled or measured in economic terms.

➢Detail and Do

• The network plan must, of course, be implemented by professionals in the field. But the network planners should be involved first, so they can better understand what is required to implement change, and second, so they can confirm the effectiveness of their recommendations. During implementation, it is a good idea to periodically measure performance against the schedule and take action, if needed, to keep the project moving.

2.2Explain why communication

Successful Implementation Of Innovation And Change

• It is noted that within much of the change management literature, communication is important to the success of change programs According to Lewis (2000) communication and organizational change are inextricably linked processes. In fact, communication is a crucial lever for change management. It is a key component to the developing change initiatives and implementing them. Communication is more than just telling someone something; it aims to answer employees’ questions and reduce their anxiety in order to keep them motivated

Effective communication is important to the success of change management. The correlation between change management and communication can help organizations and individuals to cope with change and its effects. In fact, communication plays a crucial role in developing and implementing change initiatives. Effective communication via multiple ways including speaking, writing, video, training and bulletin boards is a tool for informing, motivating, and coordinating as well as improving employees’ change skills, making them ready for change and making sure they’re engaged in change process

The importance of communication during change is not only informing, motivating and coordinating but also managing employee expectations. Managers should notice that communication during change management is not one-way and directive. They should give employees enough time to ask questions, explain their concerns and opinions about change, and share their ideas. The change leaders or managers must clearly communicate the vision, the mission, and the objectives of the change

The importance of communicationin change management is ➢Information Sharing

Communication is used to announce organizational changes and to provide stakeholders with information about the nature, timing, and significance of the change . It is critical to communicating information (e.g., mission statements and goal achievement status) during change. Failure to share information or to inform people adequately of why changes are necessary, viewed as having a highly negative impact

Participation

• Communication can break down when employees are not involved in the change process. Indeed, involving employees from start to finish in any program has always been considered as a good management practice Change will be more effective when organizations bring employees into planning and organizing the process. Moreover, employees who have helped plan and implement the change will embrace it rather that resist it.