Change Management Company Specializing In AIM
Next-Gen Organizational Change Management
Target Your Limited Resources for Maximum Benefit in the Shortest Time
Who We Are
At Implementation Management Associates (IMA), we focus on the people side of change—because transformation isn’t just about strategy; it’s about execution. Since 1989, IMA has been guiding organizations through complex, large-scale change with a business-disciplined approach to implementation management that ensures real results.
Our proprietary Accelerating Implementation Methodology (AIM) has been applied globally across Fortune 500 companies, providing the rigor and structure needed to move beyond awareness to true adoption.
In today’s fast-paced environment, organizations must prioritize what matters most—ensuring that limited resources are applied effectively to high-impact initiatives while minimizing disruption. AIM provides the framework to do more with less, focusing on sponsor alignment, targeted reinforcement, and clear execution strategies to achieve sustained business outcomes.
Whether you’re tackling digital transformation, Agile adoption, operational change, or organizational change management, our training, certification, and consulting services equip your teams with the tools to succeed.
Let’s turn your transformation challenges into measurable success.
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Our Trusted Partners
Implementation Management Associates (IMA) has partnered with Peacock Hill Consulting to expand the reach of AIM and deliver cutting-edge change management solutions. This collaboration combines IMA’s proven, business-disciplined approach with Peacock Hill’s innovative training and technology-driven insights, ensuring organizations successfully navigate complex transformations. Peacock Hill Consulting a Scaled Agile Bronze Transformation Partner.
IMA has partnered with Comparative Agility to bring AIM assessments to organizations looking to drive real, measurable change. This collaboration enhances our ability to provide data-driven insights, helping teams identify and overcome resistance, build change capability, and ensure successful implementations
ERP & Technology
Getting new technology up and running is critical, but it’s not enough to ensure system optimization and value realization. Most technology implementation failures are caused by insufficient mitigation of human-side risks, not because of technological integrity.
Here’s how using AIM can improve change management with ServiceNow.
Operational Excellence
The potential ROI for Lean/Six Sigma and quality efforts is staggering. The logic and rationale are self-evident. Yet the deployment challenge is difficult and complex. The challenge is to build a culture that truly transforms the organizational mindset.
Here’s how to achieve the desired results by using AIM.
Mergers & Acquisitions
“Same bed, different dreams.” Creeping changes, uncertainty, and on-going resistance are debilitating and drain short and long-term value from a merger. Getting the deal right is only the beginning; integration goes far beyond systems and policies.
Here’s what it takes to get the people-side of M&A right with AIM.
Culture Change
Innovation, collaboration and other similar strategic imperatives often require a change in culture. By their very nature, cultural changes bring their own implementation complexity. How do you overcome a risk-averse culture, or a silo mentality that no longer fits?
Here’s how to implement cultural changes with AIM.
Healthcare Transformation
Healthcare is a whirlwind of clinical and operational change where old patient care models must be cast aside. In this complex environment where resource constraints are ever-present, plans must include rigor, discipline, and structure for the human-side of projects.
Here’s how to build your change capacity with AIM.
Business Transformation Consulting
Enterprise-wide changes require radical change to technology, business processes, and people. The paradox: you will get the most resistance from your own mid to upper-level leaders—the very people you need to actively lead the change!
Here’s how you can achieve optimized results by using AIM.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Accelerating Implementation Methodology (AIM), and how is it different from other change management approaches?
Let’s be honest – most change models sound great on paper but fall flat in practice. AIM cuts through that with a business-disciplined, no-nonsense approach focused on real outcomes. It doesn’t stop at installation; it drives full implementation, prioritising sponsor accountability, behaviour change, and measurable adoption. It’s not just templates and buzzwords – it’s strategy, tools, and results that actually stick.
How can AIM be applied to different types of change initiatives like Agile adoption or mergers?
Same bed, different dreams – that’s often the story with change. Whether it’s Agile, a merger, ERP, or culture shift, the people-side risks are remarkably similar. AIM gives you the structure to align leadership, build readiness, and reinforce change long after launch. It’s flexible enough to suit your context, but disciplined enough to make sure things actually get done. Because execution needs more than hope.
What training programmes does IMA Worldwide offer, and who should attend them?
From resistance to results – IMA’s training goes beyond theory. Programmes range from intro workshops to ChangePro sessions to full certification courses, all packed with practical tools you can actually use. They’re ideal for change leaders, HR, managers, and even frontline staff. If you’ve ever thought, “Why is this so hard?” – these are the sessions that help you fix it.
Can I license AIM for internal use within my organization?
Absolutely. You can license AIM and get full access to everything – tools, templates, training materials, the lot. Customise it, brand it, make it yours. It’s a fast-track to building consistent change capability without starting from scratch. Why reinvent the wheel – or keep patching together inconsistent approaches that don’t deliver?
What kind of consulting services does IMA offer to support large-scale transformation?
IMA flips the typical consulting model. The goal isn’t to make you dependent – it’s to build your capability. You get real experts who work with you, not around you, helping tackle strategy, resistance, sponsorship and more. It’s practical, efficient, and designed to leave you stronger – not stuck relying on outsiders forever.
How do you measure success in a change management program using AIM?
A project that’s delivered but never adopted is still a failure, right? AIM avoids that trap by measuring what matters: time, budget, technical delivery, business outcomes, and – most importantly – human adoption. It’s all about real behaviour change and proving ROI with data execs actually care about. Because “on time and on budget” isn’t the full story.
How can AIM help reduce resistance to change within our teams?
Resistance is normal – but it doesn’t have to derail everything. AIM helps you get ahead of it by building readiness early and giving leaders the tools to engage (express, model and reinforce) their teams. It focuses communication on what an individual’s frame of reference is and “what’s in it for me?” and turns resistance into something you learn from, not something that sinks the project.
How can I get started with IMA Worldwide and AIM?
It’s easy to start – just reach out. Whether it’s a quick consultation, a training session, or bringing in a consultant for a live project, you can take the first step in a way that fits your goals. From there, scale up with licensing or support as you grow. You don’t have to figure it all out alone – and you don’t have to wing it either.
