Differences between FCM and Fuzzy ANP Techniques in the Process of Organizational Change Readiness Assessment

This paper presents a comparison between fuzzy cognitive maps (FCM) and the fuzzy analytic network process (FANP) as two well-known techniques to model causality during the process of assessing readiness of an organisation to implement a change. FCM is well known generally, but has been rarely used in assessing readiness for change. In this paper, we demonstrate several advantages of FCM for change readiness assessment. We show that the FCM technique gives similar result to FANP where expected, but allows more complex interrelationships to be modeled where necessary.