Present with a Powerful
People Perspective:
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Challenge
Business leaders understand technology investments. Many realize the need to
re-align internal processes and practices to match the new tech. But the value of
ERP communications? That can be new to a lot of senior-level decision-makers.
How to Use This Tool
Create credibility by delivering investment perspective and proactively marrying
the benefits of your company’s transformation goals with those of your proposed
ERP communications. The tighter and quicker the links are to understand, the
easier it is to get approvals among those who are responsible for creating a
successful ERP implementation team. Here’s a first draft for you to customize.
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Optimizing our Tech Transformation by Empowering Our People.
Slide 1
Our Business Transformation Goals:
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Critical step in our growth strategy
Create one connected company to make us faster, smarter, more
successful – inside and out
Multi-year business transformation
Change our culture and mindset to help us play productive roles in our
future success
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Slide 2
Our Tech Investment: $XX million
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Merge our legacy ERP systems into one world-class business operation
Streamline, simplify and modernize our processes and systems into one
information flow
Give us deeper visibility across business units
Equip us to offer better customer service by keeping us more closely
connected
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Slide 3
Our People Need to Know This!
Communications is the missing piece to our ERP success. A perspective:
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Physical: Consider our technical platform as the physical software
transformation that our organization will be implementing
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Intellectual: Our Organizational Change strategy represents intellectual,
process-centric changes our employees will be experiencing
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Emotional: ERP communications will represent the emotional connection
that will help all managers and team members feel a personal investment
to the project
Slide 4
Benefits we can realize by investing .01% of our Tech Investment.
Business value of ERP communications:
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Fuse our new ERP tech with new processes and workflows
Accelerate ERP understanding and adoption among employees
Make change tangible: create a communication framework across the
entire ERP life cycle and keep the plot fresh & exciting over time
Generate engagement by meeting employees where they’re at during key
phases of our implementation – at all levels, in all locations
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Slide 5
What are the hidden costs of not having ERP Communications?
The biggest ERP challenges turn out to be not difficulties with hardware or
software, but rather with the people involved in the process.
- CIO.com, 2011; “How to Achieve Global ERP”
“Organizational issues” increased by 42% in 2012 as a main reason behind
extended ERP durations.
- Panorama Consulting Services, 2012 ERP Report
One of the causes of ERP implementation failure is poor project communications,
which are a vital part of managing change in a corporate environment.
- Rockford Consulting, “The 12 Cardinal Sins of ERP Implementation”
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Next steps: Who should we talk to?
Partner needs to have:
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Deep experience and success with ERP implementations
Their process maps onto our tech process
Delivers highly-engaging creative that employees will notice
Offers cost efficiencies based on being ERP communication experts
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