Organizational Change Management’s Impact On ERP implementation

Organizational Change Management's Impact On ERP implementation

OCM is essential for handling significant changes in your organisation. ERP installation projects have a substantially lower chance of success if no effort is made to keep them on schedule. OCM is crucial and, in fact, ought to be a fundamental component of an overall ERP deployment.

Five-step methodology

After all, your ERP system should enhance your company's operations, customer interactions, and more. A high-level summary of our five-step methodology for using OCM in your ERP implementation project is provided below:

Evaluate your company

Every company has people who are directly involved in the project, others who are completely cut off from it, and people in the middle. When working on an ERP project, our mission is to impartially evaluate a company from both the owner's and the end user's perspectives. Does the organization's entire workforce support the need for this software change? Is there a willingness to change if not? It's critical to understand the organization's overall mentality.

Create a plan for OCM

What must be done for your end goals to be met, starting at the outset of the ERP initiative? The execution is where successes and failures are made. That includes training in great detail. There may be various ways to advance the situation and inspire staff, such as cash incentives or bonuses.

Maintain your path

Avoid putting yourself in a position where the ERP implementation team operates in isolation and the core user group is unable to provide feedback prior to the go-live date. Create a plan with checkpoints and demand that everyone participate. If you don't, you run the chance of your project disintegrating at the last minute or, worse yet, starting and failing right away.

Check each achievement

Nothing ensures the success of a project more than user testing done during the configuration phase. It's clearly important during user acceptance testing and after those tests are over and improvements have been made by the development team, but it's much better if there are possibilities for end users to use the product while being trained.

Involve super Users

That goes for your top executives as well as your front-line workers. Errors do occur, and an effective change management plan takes that into consideration. Consider the worst-case scenario when you plan your go-live, and make sure all hands are on deck in case an issue arises.

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Conclusion

The technical components of an ERP deployment project are only one facet of organisational change management. It emphasises the project's human resources component. Consider the potential consequences of a project not going as planned and include it in your OCM plan.

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Organizational Change Management’s Impact On ERP implementation