Aguila-Flores, H. G. (2019). The COMELEC post-election storage system: A change management case (Unpublished master's thesis). Public Management Development Program, Development Academy of the Philippines.

Public Management and Development Program Senior Executive Class Batch 7 Thesis (SEC)--Development Academy of the Philippines.

To enhance the delivery of its services to the electorate, the Commision on elections (COMELEC). with the support of the Congress pushed for the enactment of a law automating the counting and canvassing processes. This paved the way for the passage of the automated election system laws: Republic Acts No. 8046 and 9369 was passed in 2007 respectively. Part of these laws required the submission of post-election documents to COMELEC offices and their subsequent storage. This management study will look into COMELEC's change management experience when it adopted the Automated Election System after RA 9369 was passed 2007 until its present implementation vis-a-vis the state of its post-election storage capability and readiness. In investigating the management strategies adopted and the reality of the implementation, the author relied on her first hand knowledge of the management of post-election operations in the commisiong, written answers to questionnaires requested to be filled up by key informants from the main and field offices and written surevey on the extent of the employees' participation in the technological change management activities dealing with their current post-election storage skils. As this study narrates how COMELEC tackled operations-focused change management throughoutits two-decade transition period. the author will examine the extent of the strategies employed in so far as they have occured post-election storage management. Among the strategies to be scrutinized include the attempt to establish the capacity building arm of the Commission : COMELEC information and Technology Training Institute otherwise known as CITTIand its dissolution along the process and the digitization Project undertaken in an attempt to manage its snowballing volume of post-election paper files and diminishing storage spaces. Using Joh P, Kotter's Eight Step Change Management Framework, this study reflectedon how change management was undertaken in COMELEC vis-a-vis each of Kotter's eight steps on how change should have been implemented.