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SOS: How to Manage the Urge to Implement Everything You See

How do we determine if we really need that new feature or function that we hear about so often? Here's how to strategically evaluate the next "big shiny object" you come across.

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Why Digital Transformation Is The Next Great Struggle

The Digital Transformation is coming - is your organization ready? According to recent studies, there are 5 key areas to prioritize for a successful digital workplace. But - spoiler alert - digital is not all about technology. Read on to learn about how better understanding people - and failure - will truly lead to digital success.

Why Digital Transformation Is The Next Great Struggle

The Digital Transformation is coming - is your organization ready? According to recent studies, there are 5 key areas to prioritize for a successful digital workplace. But - spoiler alert - digital is not all about technology. Read on to learn about how better understanding people - and failure - will truly lead to digital success.

Characteristics of a Failing CRM Project

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According to our CPR for CRM study, which is also confirmed by Merkle Group Inc.’s 2013 study, CRM projects have up to a 60% failure rate. In other words, when you launch a CRM project, the chances are that it will end in failure! After a recent webcast discussion of CRM failure, we were asked to engage with a company who had started off strong, but after a few years, they were struggling. The issues they were experiencing were typical of many other companies that we work with.  See if these symptoms sound familiar to you...

 

Are you creating value, or just worried about ROI?

imageWarren Buffet once said that “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”  In our daily work, we talk a lot about value. However, the truth is, a lot of organizations spend a lot of time, effort, and money trying to measure ROI – the precise financial impact of an initiative - without first understanding the value to the business. This blog entry breaks down how to generate both organic ROI and real business value.

It’s All About The User Story. Are You Successful In Getting From “Once Upon A Time” to “The End”?


User stories are the most important aspect of delivering a successful agile project that meets (or even exceeds) the expectations of the client. The story can serve as the vehicle for determining scope, sprint planning, requirements gathering, specification documentation, as well as test script creation and training documentation. So great care must be taken to elicit, document, and gain consensus on and approval of the client’s needs before executing.

Micro Mentoring – Can you really afford NOT to take the time?

Mentoring is one of those things that seems to make tons of sense to people but rarely if ever gets done. The days of new employees being given a formal mentor and six weeks to six months of “ramp up time” appear to be long gone for most companies, regardless of their size or industry.

Making Change Requests a Positive Experience

Change requests always seem to start out top of mind as a positive concept when a project kicks off. However, mid-way through they always seem to be the proverbial elephant “afterthought” in the room. If this is a common issue for your project team, take a look at these five tips to help prevent this pitfall moving forward.

Project Lifecycle Management

Just as no two clients are the same, no two projects are the same. Thus the characteristics of the solution, the team, the timeline and whether or not it is an initial implementation or an enhancement should be weighed before selecting a project management methodology. 
This blog will explore the basic functions of: Six Sigma, Waterfall, and Agile approaches.  

LUCK Guided User Adoption

Many organizations believe that thorough training is the only step necessary to ensure user adoption—this assumption could not be more wrong. Effective user adoption begins at the planning stage of a project and is threaded throughout the life cycle. Learn how we apply The LUCK Principle™ to every step of the process.


9 Tips to Re-Engage your CRM Use


Is it a fair statement to say that we all have had a poor experience using CRM? That we either wanted our old methods back or short cuts in this new application called CRM? There are many reasons for user not liking and embracing CRM deployments; however let's address instead how to re-engage to increase adoption of CRM in your organization.  

The 7 Habits of Successful Technology Projects – Habit 6

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Most organizations today believe that if you simply implement “the new technology”, that everyone will immediately and automatically (and of course without any prompting) begin to use the new system(s).  On the contrary, our experience has shown us that once a new solution has been implemented, there is still much to do to ensure it is truly successful. I would like to directly address a few areas where we see most organizations struggle to cross the finish line, and practical ways to correct these issues.

Five Ways NOT to Prioritize Initiatives for your Organization and Yourself!

Even with the expansive good information out there, companies do the darnedest things when choosing from initiatives that are vying for constrained resources. Surely your organization has never done any of the things outlined here...

The 7 Habits of Successful Technology Projects – Habit 4

Technology is wonderful thing, but never forget that it’s not the only thing.  What I mean is this - while technology can provide us with new ways of doing things, automation of tasks, and analysis we could only dream of doing on our own, technology should never be a substitute for your people and your process.

The 7 Habits of Successful Technology Projects – Habit 3

Trips (or projects) do not complete themselves.  It takes “unseen” things to make it all happen, and that is where this habit will focus.

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CPR for CRM Study

The complementary paper includes over 12 years of research, recent survey results, and CRM turnaround success stories.

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SharePoint Readiness Assessment

This 60-second assessment is designed to evaluate your organization's collaboration readiness.

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CRM Self Assessment

Learn how you rank compared to organizations typically in years 1 to 5 of implementation - and which areas to focus on to improve.

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SharePoint Feedback Solution

This is a sandbox solution which can be activated per site collection to allow you to easily collect feedback from users into a custom Feedback list.

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SharePoint Upgrade Checklist

Whether you are upgrading to SharePoint Online, 2010, 2013 or the latest 2016, this checklist contains everything you need to know for a successful transition.