ERP Organizational Change Success
Why Our Blog? To share and promote organizational change and digital transformation success.
Let’s roll up our sleeves and get working on smarter, leaner, better ways to realize ERP implementation success.
What are the right tools and the right methods for success? This blog is intended as a vendor- neutral forum to study, share, and discuss ERP implementations with a focus on project challenges and failure mitigation. It is dedicated to corporate ERP success, corporate project stakeholders, and to boots-on-the-ground practitioners responsible for that success. It’s intended to be a collaboration tool and resource. Every ERP integration, implementation, or upgrade is unique. The idea is to collaborate and share the good, the bad, and the ugly.
I hope that others find this blog useful as we share lessons learned, best practices, and the human element components of ERP projects. The ERP business is a billion-dollar industry with its share of significant problems that can be addressed by improved and objective collaboration. I believe that an improved effort has to be made to quantify, document, share, and communicate data that will bring value and provide more insight into what really separates the “good” ERP projects from the “bad.” I also believe that there is a long way to go in this effort. Academia is providing more and more research in this area as it is a real problem with real ROI opportunities that need to be solved. I look forward to using this blog to share my recent dissertation research regarding many aspects of ERP success models.
”Boots on the Ground”- Jack G. Nestell
ERP Organizational Change Success: Address The Real Issues
ERP Organizational Change Success: Address The Real Issues by Dr. Jack G. Nestell and Dr. Justin Goldston The Objective Effective gap analysis is crucial to successful ERP organizational change. ERP organizational change is often impacted by inherent influences that...
“HOW ARE YOUR PEOPLE RESPONDING TO THE PANDEMIC? BUILDING ON A CULTURE OF ADAPTABILITY” BY DR. DANIEL R. DENISON AND MICHAEL G. SCHWENDEMAN
Friends and colleagues at Denison Consulting are performing research to determine how companies are adapting to the Covid-19 pandemic. Interesting article with some insightful information and tips. Their research showed that a strong organizational culture of...
Nestell & Associates would like to welcome our friend and colleague to our team, Dr. Justin Goldston.
Nestell & Associates would like to welcome our friend and colleague to our team, Dr. Justin Goldston. We are excited for the expertise, passion, and dedication to our trade that Dr. Goldston will bring to our team. As an experienced ERP organizational change...
Stakeholder Group Diversity and Relationships
“ERP-implementations challenge vested interests and lead to opposing views from various players. Implementation includes multi-level activities, which are not the exclusive area of a single project manager. Outcomes of decisions are not always products of rational...
Organizational Learning: A Key to ERP Organizational Change Success
Effective Learning Through Effective Education Effective organizational learning and education is a key influence for successful ERP organizational change. When discussing education in general, Dr. Richard E. Snow states in his article “Aptitude Development and...
What is ERP Organizational Change Research? And, Why Should You Care?
ERP and organizational change researchers have a passion to bring value to practitioners that are based on sound research and principle. The field and practice of ERP organizational change would benefit from the reflection and application of this insightful work. When...
What is the value of ERP?
ERP value is driven by significant business demands Demands for business success can be significant. This demand drives ERP value. There are tough conversations that occur in boardrooms all across the country. ERP Practitioners, business owners, executives,...
The Field of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Organizational Change: Collaboration and Competition
Practitioner Collaboration, not Competition, is a key to ERP Organizational Change Success: We recently had a PE portfolio executive ask us about competition within the practice of ERP organizational change. So, we just wanted to share a few notes on that topic. But...
ERP Organizational Change Success: It’s a Matter of Applied Principle
ERP Organizational Change Success: It’s a Matter of Principle When it comes to applying principle to practice I can’t help but to admire practices like that of West Executive, Inc and THE CHRYSALIS CODE® (https://ronjwest.com), Conner Partners®...
“Dimensions of Change Execution” by Mr. Conner & Dr. Boswell
One of our missions at N&A is to study, share, collaborate, and discuss any/all things ERP organizational change related. We like to share knowledge and promote work from our friends, mentors, and colleagues in practice and/or research. A nice article by Mr....
Introducing “The ERP Organizational Change Journal” Podcast Coming Soon…
Nestell & Associates is pleased to introduce "The ERP Organizational Change Journal" podcast coming soon. We are incredibly excited and beyond honored and grateful to have friends, colleagues, and mentors join us for the launch of our new podcast. We have a great...
Organizational Communication Optimization and ERP Success: PART V
Organizational communication and diversity ERP organizational change consists of many disparate ideas of expectations, organizational change realities, and significant diversity in terms of knowledge, value, and motivation. In a effort to ensure alignment,...
Organizational Communication Optimization and ERP Success: PART IV
Communication optimization: Why does research matter to ERP practitioners? Research has a great deal to offer ERP practitioners when it comes to organizational communication optimization. Some industries, trades, and practices leverage applied research more than...
Organizational Communication Optimization and ERP Success: PART III
Improving organizational communication via experience, sound evidence, and principle: All would agree that organizational communication optimization is crucial. Generally speaking as career ERP practitioners and on behalf of our field, through years of hard work and...
Organizational Communication Optimization and ERP Success: PART II
Value of objective measurement via communication optimization: Communication optimization is king. The objective standard to measure a successful ERP implementation is determined and benchmarked by clearly identifying key performance indicators (KPIs) prior to and...
Organizational Communication Optimization and ERP Success: PART I
Value of organizational communication concepts and proven principles: One thing is for certain, and that is the value of organizational communication throughout ERP organizational change. At every level, the vertical and horizontal communication across the...
Organizational Communication Optimization and ERP Success
Only 10% of organizational change knowledge gets to the bottom of an organization. But, 65% of an organization needs to be on board for effective organizational change (Elise Olding, “Communicating for Effective Organizational Change”, Gartner Symposium IT/xpo 2013,...
A well said quote that we dug up from our ERP article archive……
Regarding ERP organizational change, the below quote is true and well-said assuming you selected the proper ERP solution, to begin with. As each ERP vendor will tell you, they are different from their competitors and they do have differences in functionality,...
“Why Do Employees Resist Change?”…..A Great Read
Ever hear of a “Personal Compact”? Check out this great article - “Why Do Employees Resist Change?” by Paul Strebel from the May–June 1996 Issue of BBR: https://hbr.org/1996/05/why-do-employees-resist-changegreat
The Impact of Organizational Culture on ERP is Significant
* * We genuinely hope for the best for all during this challenging time. We hope you and your loved ones remain healthy and that you navigate through the economic challenges sustainably. * Experienced practitioners and change agents in the field know anecdotally and...
The Importance of Organizational Culture in ERP Success
Recently Jack (Partner at Nestell & Associates) and Michael G. Schwendeman (Research Consultant at Denison Consulting) coauthored a short article for the “Tech Features” section of the March 2020 issue of Fashion Mannuscript Magazine’s “The Men’s Issue”. The...