Business Chief Europe Magazine February 2021 | Page 178

ASIACELL

“ Change management is probably the most important angle of this transformation ”

— Amir Abdelazim ,
CTIO , Asiacell
178 need to get our people ready for it ,” says Abdelazim , saying that cultural change management must go hand in hand with technological transformation . Asiacell has , he explains , started a complete restructuring of its internal processes and operating model .
“ We ’ re using different restructuring programs , different skill injections , different retraining programs and different partnerships in order to ensure that our team is working harmoniously with the new infrastructure and modes of service delivery .”
He notes , however , that this isn ’ t a simple case of throwing out the old and adopting a new blanket system across the whole organisation . “ It ’ s about applying the right style to the right team . We deploy agile methodology to the teams that need agility . We deploy stricter , more processoriented transformation within the teams that need that approach .” With
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