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YouTube: What is Organizational Change Management?
You’ve heard us say it before but organizational change management (OCM) is an essential component of ERP implementations. Watch this webinar clip for a straightforward definition of OCM, explained in a way that insinuates its importance and measurable business value....Effectively Engaging Employees Throughout an ERP Implementation
Money motivates. Or at least that’s what conventional managerial wisdom tells us. But although many executives still cling to this assumption, some executives are beginning to realize that nonfinancial incentives can be just as motivating (if not more so). Applying...Developing a Culture of Innovation
Innovation can be a scary word for organizations that are holding onto the 20th century mindset of tight control and rigid structure. The technology and connectivity of the 21st century calls for flexibility and openness to change but many organizations are so...Five Signs of Executive Misalignment on Your ERP Implementation
Executive buy-in and support is one of the key success factors for any ERP implementation. Without it, your ERP project has very little chance of success. With it, your initiative has the ability to completely transform your business. When you look at the ERP...
How to Engage Employees During an ERP Implementation
Managing an ERP implementation can be like taming a monster. Options for configuration are typically in the hundreds or thousands, data migration is often a nightmare, and customization and integration can quickly derail any project. If these software-focused...ERP Training Strategies
Effective and efficient ERP training is the cornerstone of every successful organizational change management (OCM) plan. Training end-users and preparing employees for system go-live directly contributes to bottom-line results and ERP success. But what does effective...Customization vs. Organizational Change Management: Which is Easier?
Any industry expert will tell you that ERP implementations are not just about technology. People and business processes matter more to the success of an ERP project than abundant IT staffing and strategic customization ever will. Nonetheless, most organizations – no...Organizational Change Management Tools
This webinar clip covers recommendations on how organizations can leverage organizational change management (OCM) tools and processes to mitigate OCM challenges. The full webinar is available here: Five Key Organizational Change Management Challenges With ERP...The Plan for ERP Systems in 2013
Now that the holidays are over and the predictions for 2013 are in, we can get back to the business at hand for the coming year. This is the time when many of our existing and potential clients are either planning for upgrades or improvements or looking for ways to...ERP Failure: Air Force None
The U.S. Air Force has finally made the long anticipated decision to completely scrap a major ERP software project after spending more than $1B over the last seven years. When Oracle won the contract in 2005, securing the deal over rivals such as SAP, the price tag...Internal Sabotage: A Critical Risk Factor of ERP Failure
Businesses that implement ERP systems have nothing but good intentions when deciding to reengineer business processes and alter IT infrastructure. Unfortunately, employees sometimes overlook this good intent and focus solely on the consequences: new business...Using PR Principles to Improve your Organizational Change Management Initiative
ERP implementations can be momentously unsettling to executives, employees and end-users who feel that a new ERP system is intrusive, unnecessary and inconvenient to their usual business processes. In frustration, end-users can intentionally or unintentionally...Aligning Your Corporate Culture With Your ERP Implementation
When an ERP implementation fails, it’s easy to blame the software, the project manager or the ERP consultants but there are less obvious causes. Think organizational change management. This ERP implementation success factor is all too often overlooked or...A Day in the Life of a CIO (During an ERP Implementation)
The life of a CIO is anything but easy – and when you throw an ERP implementation into the mix, all bets are off. CIOs of organizations undergoing large-scale ERP implementations are required to maintain a delicate balance between their role on the executive team and...Top Ways to Derail ERP System Usage
Are you looking for ways to obliterate any return from your ERP system, confuse your employees and/or compromise your organizational health overall? Then you’re in the right place! We’ve collected the top ways to do just that! Keep reading for our tips on how to systematically — and permanently — derail ERP software usage at […]
Using Gamification to Motivate Employees During an ERP Implementation
If you received recognition every time you learned a new skill or completed an important task, would you be more engaged at work? This question is exactly what some businesses have been debating as they consider the benefits of diving into one of the newest emerging industries in the U.S.: “gamification.” Many have called gamification a […]
The Importance of Two-way Communication During an ERP Implementation
In most situations, creativity is pretty great. In the midst of a high-stress ERP implementations, however, creativity is probably the last thing the C-level wants to see in the end-user community. But look at it from a typical user’s point of view: when no one...Educating the Executive Level About the Value of Organizational Change Management
Problems with out-of-date or poorly functioning ERP software often are abundantly clear to anyone working within the system. But a disconnect can arise when those tasked with making decisions about the ERP system don’t actually use the ERP system. After all, it’s a...“Shock and Awe” – The Catalyst of a Successful ERP Implementation
One of my favorite books is The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein. The book details the psychological and cultural aspects of societies in relation to systematic change. According to the author, it is extremely difficult to impose...
