So you’re going to implement new job codes, or department codes, or whatever. Someone in the organization has a great idea: “let’s make the codes smart!” I mean, what better idea to manage the information within the code than to implant attributes within the code itself. So you go down the road: Job category...
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In cycling, one of the core concepts when you are trying to maintain good “form” is the maintenance of cadence. Basically, a cyclist is most efficient when the legs are spinning at around 90 to 110 cycles per minute. The idea is that for each pedal stroke, a certain number of watts must be...
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I feel like I always talk about change management and adoption. When implementing a new system, I can definitely say that over the last few years I’ve seen a marked improvement in the diligence of internal implementation project managers in stressing the importance of behavioral change and end user adoption. It is honestly so...
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Jacob Morgan wrote a piece about adoption a while back, and he had a pretty interesting concept around supporting business process as opposed to change management. This is really quite new to me, as we’ve always talked about change management and behavioral change as opposed to a softer concept of “support.” You need to...
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I’m not sure who first coined the term “shelfware.” Most of our IT departments have all sorts of stuff we have purchased that we intend to implement but just haven’t done so yet. Or we have implementations that we have abandoned, or we have technology and strategy roadmaps that are mid way through because...
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We always end up talking about employee adoption whenever we are implementing anything whether it’s technology, process or anything else. When we talk about adoption, we’re really talking change management, and in that we are talking about changing both behaviors of people as well as attitudes. We want to convert both their minds as...
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