Posts Tagged ‘measuring success’
Three Sins to Derail Successful Change
Layers of Change Lately, in the change management initiatives I’ve worked on, I’ve noticed more and more leaders who feel anguished and anxious because they believe they should be at a certain point in the change process—a point they still haven’t reached yet. So I’ve found myself more and more having to explain that the…
Read MoreWhen to measure user adoption?
You have diligently planned your project, you’ve thought about your internal marketing strategy and developed a communications plan, you’ve established your KPI’s of success, now what? If you are like most organizations you Go-Live! You already determined in your plan you are going to do a survey or you have a set date and time…
Read MoreUser Adoption KPI’s What should I be measuring and how frequently?
Organizational change management and user adoption efforts often focus on the “softer” items, like effective training and motivating people. But statistics have shown, the best organizational change management programs do both but put an emphasis on measurable Key Performance Indicators. First always set your Business Objective KPIs Revenue increase Cost reduction # of errors/returns support Calls-…
Read MoreUser Adoption – Benchmarking
There are a lot of articles about user adoption and almost all of them will tell you being clear on the business objective you are trying to achieve, communicating well and often and having executive leadership buy in are the ingredients for success. I agree but we all know what is measured, is what gets…
Read MoreWhat’s in it for me? Part 1: Requests Mean Sacrifice
In previous posts, I’ve alluded to “What’s in it for me?” or WIIFM as the driving force behind most decisions for most people. In this post, I’m going to dig into the concept and discuss how it comes into play when you make a request of someone. I’ll also discuss the ways you can make…
Read MoreUser Adoption KPI’s – What should I be measuring and how frequently?
Organizational change management and user adoption efforts often focus on the “softer” items, like effective training and motivating people. But statistics have shown, the best organizational change management programs do both but put an emphasis on measurable Key Performance Indicators. First always set your Business Objective KPIs Revenue increase Cost reduction # of errors/returns support Calls- #, frequency,…
Read MoreCommon KPI and Benchmarking Mistakes – What are you measuring in your user adoption effort?
In a previous blog we discussed the benefits of benchmarking and I outlined a 10 step process with step 1 being: select the product, process, or service to be benchmarked. Simple right? But in consulting engagements whenever we are trying to establish the key metrics we will use to judge and measure user adoption things get quite a bit more complex. (If…
Read MoreUser Adoption – Benchmarking
There are a lot of articles about user adoption and almost all of them will tell you being clear on the business objective you are trying to achieve, communicating well and often and having executive leadership buy in are the ingredients for success. I agree but we all know what is measured, is what gets improved so…
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