ChangePlan’s All Initiatives Impact Heatmap is a powerful reporting visualization of where change is landing across your organization.
You can download the full underlying data ChangePlan has aggregated from across initiatives to create the heatmap. Instructions here.
But sometimes you need to go deeper — to answer specific questions, prepare tailored reports for leadership, or combine impact data with other information like capability scores or initiative portfolios. That’s where the full underlying data export comes in.
ChangePlan enables you to export the full underlying data from the Change Impacts Heatmaps. Read more here.
Unlike a manual spreadsheet exercise, these exports are powered by ChangePlan’s sophisticated impact assessment rollups. The system automatically consolidates initiative data, stakeholder mappings, and severity weightings to generate a dataset that is both comprehensive and decision-ready.
Excel alone can’t tell you where impacts overlap, which teams are overloaded, or how portfolio mixes compare — but ChangePlan does the heavy lifting and then gives you the raw material to go deeper.
By downloading the complete dataset behind the heatmap into Excel, you can:
- Answer stakeholder-specific questions with precision
- Build custom visuals that connect directly to leadership needs
- Combine change impacts with other metrics (e.g. capability scores, portfolios) for richer insight
By downloading the complete dataset behind the heatmap into Excel, you can build reports that reveal new insights and connect directly to the questions your stakeholders are asking.
Report Title | Question it Answers | Best Audience |
Which teams are facing the greatest volume and severity of change? | Transformation, HR, Portfolio Governance | |
Which initiatives carry the highest change load? | Change Managers, HR, Comms | |
What kind of change is each team facing (systems, process, behavior, roles)? | Change Managers, HR, Comms | |
Which portfolios are generating the most complex change? | PMO, Execs, Portfolio Leads | |
Do teams have the capability to absorb and lead change? | HR, L&D, Change Sponsors | |
Which low-capability teams are facing the most initiatives? | Transformation, HR, Portfolio Governance | |
When are teams hitting peak change periods, and from what types of change? | PMO, Transformation, Execs |
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Practical Tips and Pitfalls
- Time to build: Report 1 (5–10 mins), Reports 2–3 (10 mins), Report 4 (15–20 mins), Reports 5–6 (20–30 mins)
- Common pitfall: Excel defaults Values to Count instead of Sum. Always check.
- Thresholds: Use RAG (Red <3.0, Amber 3.0–3.4, Green 3.5+) consistently for capability.
- Scenarios:
- Report 1: One client spotted Finance was overloaded and delayed a rollout by 2 months.
- Report 3: Another used portfolio comparisons to rebalance resources.
- Report 5: Helped highlight that HR was facing 3 initiatives with low capability scores, triggering extra support.