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Organizational change management: the ACMP® Standard, methodologies compared, the glossary of the discipline and the roles that practise it.
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Closing a change management effort, in the ACMP Standard, second edition, means judging the result against the goals, recording lessons, and getting approval to hand over ownership and release resources. Group 5.5 has three processes.
Group 5.4 of the ACMP Standard puts the approved plans to work: eight executions that carry out and monitor each plan, plus a controlled way to modify them when the evidence shows the change is drifting.
The change management plan of the ACMP Standard (group 5.3) turns strategy into eight component plans, aligns them with the project plan, wins approval from project leadership and sets up the feedback that keeps it honest.
Section 5.2 of the ACMP Standard, second edition (2025), sets out eight strategies, from resources to sustainability. Here is what each one decides, which assessments it draws on, and how it turns into one of the eight plans of section 5.3.
Section 5.1 of the ACMP Standard, second edition (2025), holds 16 processes that define the change, assess its impact and test capacity and readiness. This guide shows what each one looks for, what it produces, and why strategy has to wait for it.
The ACMP Standard, second edition, holds 33 processes in five groups, each ending in named outputs. Here is the full list, group by group, and a way to use it as an adaptable project checklist. We also explain why the contents page counts 32.
The second edition (2025) keeps the five process groups and the neutral stance, adds emphasis on change readiness and flexible sequencing, and applies to the CCMP exam from 1 April 2026. No official list of every wording change was found.
The ACMP Standard, Prosci ADKAR, Kotter’s 8 steps, Lewin and Bridges answer different questions, and only three of them lead to a credential.
This glossary defines 30 change management terms in one sentence each, from the CCMP and MCMP credentials to QEP courses, PDUs and the ACMP Standard.
The ACMP Standard for Change Management is the reference text behind the CCMP. Its second edition (2025) sets out shared terms, eight concepts and five process groups of 33 processes, to use as a menu of practices, not a recipe.
Organizational change management is the structured work of helping people adopt a new way of working. The ACMP Standard organizes it in five process groups.
