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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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What Change Management Assessments are Essential to ERP Success?
It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of an ERP implementation. The technology is new, the software is promising, and the CTO is revved up. However, once go-live rolls around, many companies find that the majority of employees are resistant to use the new...
Why Culture Change is Essential for Digital Transformation
In the race to outpace the competition and cater to an increasingly digital audience, many companies are investing in new technologies and undergoing digital business transformation. In fact, research shows that more than 80% of organizations are now holding their IT...
What are the Reasons for Change Management (Other Than an ERP Project)?
Change isn’t only associated with enterprise-wide projects. Change is actually a constant within organizations, so change management should be, as well. What is change management? It is the process of looking at the human side of a project. While not every day will...
7 Tips for Creating a Change Management Plan
Change is like the family minivan. It’s not the fancy sports car everyone wants to drive, but it’s necessary to accomplish your goals. When beginning the change management process, you may have a long road of resistance ahead of you. Before starting down this road,...
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...
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....
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
​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...
