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5 Turnaround Change Management Tips
As the coronavirus pandemic forces many companies into financial crisis, executives around the world are figuring out how to get their teams out of quicksand and back on solid ground. Large-scale change is necessary, and now is the time to act. However, before you...
How to Build a Strong Culture with a Remote Team: The Complete Guide
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, millions of employees are now working remotely. The decision has reopened a years-long dialogue around the advantages and drawbacks of a flexible work arrangement, with valid points on both sides. As employers around the...
5 Ways to Prepare for Transformational Change
If you’re considering digital transformation, you probably know it entails significant operational changes. Whether you’re changing your entire business model or certain business processes, these transformational changes are challenging for organizations and their...
Coaching Managers to be Change Leaders
Before embarking on an enterprise-wide project, senior management should be aware of the challenges they might encounter. Some of these challenges include employee resistance to change, ineffective communication practices and poor prioritization of new initiatives....
Why Cybersecurity Requires a Change Management Plan
Some organizations believe the right technology and processes are all they need for strong cybersecurity. However, they are overlooking their strongest defense: their people. Hackers know that employees are the quickest and easiest route to company data. Considering...
8 Strategic Human Capital Management Tips
Change is scary, especially in a business setting. From an operations standpoint, it can cause costly delays and strain the budget. From the employee standpoint, it often means extra work and fear of the unknown. As a result, the human resources department will need...
4 Common Questions About Change Champions
Some of the best sports teams have mascots— people who inspire fans to cheer louder and root more passionately for their teams. The common purpose behind these costumed heroes is simple: funnel organizational support into a collective energy to rally their teams to...
5 Facts About Employee Engagement
Imagine you are a vice president at a leading sales company. Your CEO just charged you with spearheading a project that will fundamentally change the way your business operates. You know that many projects involving large-scale change fail on the first attempt and are...
How to Conduct a Focus Group: Guidelines for Discussion
ERP projects and business transformations are exciting ventures for organizations. However, this excitement is almost always accompanied by apprehension. With this apprehension comes questions like: Will my employees reject the proposed changes? Will managers support...
4 Tips for Managing Large-scale Change
As companies become more globally interconnected, the reach and impact of their operations have scaled up to become global, as well. As a result, organizational change management projects are often no longer limited to just one region, but instead span multiple global...
What Change Management Assessments are Essential to ERP Success?
Change resistance and other roadblocks can delay a change initiative– or worse yet, cause it to fail. This is why companies about to embark on a business transformation or ERP project should use change management assessments to anticipate and mitigate roadblocks....
8 Tips for End User Training
Most people dislike change. This makes implementing organizational changes difficult. If your company is about to undergo significant organizational changes, then preparing employees is the best way to mitigate change resistance. In fact, a comprehensive end user...
10 Communication Tools for Change Agents
Although both organizational change management and innovative communication tools have been around for some time, many organizations don’t combine them. As a change agent, you can pick and choose which tools work best for you, and you can adjust them to suit the needs...
5 Tips to Avoid Change Management Failure
According to a recent survey of more than 1,500 executives who had undertaken a significant change effort in the past five years, only 37% felt that the implementation was successful. While it pays to understand the change management models and theories that...
How to Manage Change During a Merger or Acquisition
Any type of change is traumatic, but few things are scarier than a merger or acquisition. Whether you’re doing the acquiring or you’re being acquired, this process can be stressful for everyone involved. Managing change related to a merger or acquisition is necessary...
Why Organizational Change is so Difficult (According to Science)
If you dread organizational change, you are not alone. Any type of work-related change, regardless of how large or small, is typically met with resistance. These sentiments are universal and affect everyone from part-time employees to C-level executives. Why? Because...
Addressing the Challenges and Opportunities of ERP in Developing Countries
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have proved effective in streamlining business processes in many highly urbanized countries. The enhancements it brings to organizations like private institutions and even governments are significant, especially in terms of...
You Give Change a Bad Name: 5 Ways to Overcome Organizational Change Management Fraud
There’s a reason why some companies have a gag reflex to the term organizational change management. It’s because most change initiatives fail. Organizational change management is one of the most misunderstood, nebulous, and ignored terms in the world of digital...
Cutting on Change Management Budget: a Mistake That Will Hunt you Down
Every single ERP project, no matter the size, is about change. We all know that a new ERP system demands that organizations change the way they do business, otherwise why else would a company go through the painful process of an ERP implementation, right? The whole...
