Driving Adoption of Social Collaboration Tools
I was having a discussion yesterday with a vendor client on adoption of its activity stream product and wanted to share some of our thoughts. Adoption for social collaboration tools is extremely important, it’s a network effect issue, the more…
Matching Vendor/Product And Buyer Lifecycles
Vocabulary Shapes Our (Wishful) Thinking
This post was inspired by a Twitter exchange with a valued colleague after I tweeted that this might not be the best time to be a new buyer of Oracle PSFT/EBS HRMS given Oracle’s commitment to Fusion HCM as the next generation of these long-established product lines. My colleague very correctly […]
Who cares about the soft stuff… when everyone’s ready for outsourcing change
Outsourcing change is revolutionary—the world order changes. At the minimum, outsourcing introduces new rules and tools, different outcomes, changes careers, moves work offshore, requires new skills—all in the effort to realize a business case with…
Change management and communications for IT success
Change management and poor communications among stakeholder groups on IT projects is a key contributor to failure. Follows these ideas to solve the problem.
ERP change management: The silent killer
Insufficient attention to change management is key problem on many ERP implementations.
Change management and the wisdom of failure
Failure creates excellent opportunities to refine experience and knowledge into great success.
Change management: Denial and the fear of failure
Project participants often hope for success but are too scared to take positive action.
Free Agent Nation: Nail Tech Tales
Nail Tech Tales When Daniel Pink’s now classic “Free Agent Nation” was published in 2001, it brought to public attention the world in which I had been living for much of my professional life. Just in my little neighborhood, at the intersection of HRM and IT, I knew well several dozen solos, like me, who were earning […]
Bloom & Wallace Release 2011
These projects took 6-9 months, with me working intensively with a carefully selected client team led by an HR executive, and with a steering committee that always included senior line executives as well as the CFO and CIO which was chaired by the senior most HR executive. Hewlett-Packard, International Paper, Bank of America, ALCOA, Metropolitan Life, Reynolds Metals, […]
13 warning signs to prevent ERP doom
Integrating big systems across an entire organization is challenging at best and often disastrous. Here are 13 tips to help you succeed.
