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The 2022 ERP Report
Every year, Panorama analyzes industry trends to understand organizations’ selection and implementation practices when it comes to enterprise software.
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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
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
Many organizations launch organizational change management programs that fail to fully transition employees into the desired future state. These organizations often focus on developing a communication plan while forgoing many other change management...
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...
How Your Digital Transformation Will Affect Employees
No matter the size or complexity of your organization, ERP implementations entail significant organizational changes. From new technology to reengineered business processes, your employees are likely to feel the full impact of digital transformation. And you better...
Be Different: Focus on Organizational Change Management
While digital transformation initiatives can be challenging, organizations that focus on organizational change management can greatly increase their chances of success by prioritizing people and processes over technology. For years, people have struggled to understand...
How Sneaky is Your Organizational Change Management?
That was a rhetorical question. In truth, it’s an oxymoron. Organizational change management is anything but sneaky. The introduction of a new ERP system should never feel like an ambush by a hawk – employees need a bit more advance notice than that. With adequate...
Three Change Management Hacks to Ensure ERP Success
ERP implementations entail significant operational changes. Whether it’s new business models or new business processes, these types of changes are never easy for organizations and their employees. This all means that organizational change management is critical to the...
The ‘Success’ Hierarchy
Hierarchy (Noun): A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. Think about it when it comes to royalty. It’s like a pecking order. The King or Queen make the decisions and then everyone “under”...
New Year = New Business?
About this time of the year, people start making their new year’s resolutions. We all know that local gyms will get more crowded, grocery stores will go through more fruits and veggies and people will want to “spend less and save more” – especially after the holidays....
‘Tis the Season to be Jolly…But Are You?
By now, Christmas is in full steam. There are Christmas tunes on the radio, every store has decked their halls in wreaths and bows and there are sales around every corner. While you may be in full on Christmas spirit, have you thought about if your employees are...
