Change Management
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7 Indications There is Pain in Change When Automating AP
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In The 8 Pitfalls of Accounts Payable Automation, I use the analogy of a rollercoaster to explain what life is going to be like when a company changes from a paper Accounts Payable process to an automated Accounts Payable process. What? I guess the rollercoaster idea is not the best way to explain change, because…
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The Most Difficult Question I Have Ever Had to Answer – #APAutomation
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Over 200 blogs, 3 books and countless conversation over 15 year of Accounts Payable Automation, and you might think it is impossible for me to have “1” difficult question. It’s true there is one question that is the most difficult. The Set Up To build suspense and to create enough backup to the one question……
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The 6 #APAutomated Metrics Your CEO Actually Cares About
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Depending on the size of the company, very rarely do I interact with the CEO. I don’t know if it’s because they don’t care about Accounts Payable processing or if they just have other things to do… you know – well delegated. They know… CEO’s know the importance of Accounts Payable. I haven’t met a CEO…
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There is an AP Automation Dilemma- 3 Things to think about.
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When faced with Accounts Payable Automation there is a natural dilemma that occurs when asking the question, “why automate”. Easy? For a select few companies there is an easy answer. Like a need and opportunity in the company to reduce headcount by employee software rather than people. For others the need and opportunity is not…
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If you Automate AP in 2014 – There is 1 thing you have to battle
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I really can’t believe I used “Battle” in the title. When I wrote the Argument to Automate I used a phase “Revolutionize with a New Plan”. Then, one of my readers told me that people generally die in revolution, so I changed it to reorganize. I guess the same can be true with a battle.…
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The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Mastering Change in Accounting
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Have you done something and it was such a good deal or situation that you felt like you were somehow doing something wrong. I was at Staples once to get a few companies of a training manual done (this was before I was paperless) and the person in front of me couldn’t believe how low…
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5 Ways Change Hurts Your Process in AP
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I am not a big fan of going negative. I remember a story about a boy who came home and told his dad that he failed a test. His dad said, “quit being so negative… be positive!” The boy said, “ok, dad I am positive I failed that test.” There are 5 Here are…
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One Good Personal Reason to Change
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I have to warn you that in the coming year I am going to be writing a lot about change… if this was TV I would ask you not to turn the channel. Why? Here is the thing. I can’t think of an instance, project, company or person where change is the common thread of…
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Final Thoughts On Change
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For the last few weeks I have been doing my best to give context on change and its impact on accounting automation. When I write about accounting automation I am referring to getting rid of the paper invoices and the paper checks. To review for the last few weeks I have been writing about positive…
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How Will You Know You Have Changed?
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Well this seems like an obvious question with an easy answer… things will look different… things will work different. That’s not what I am want to write about. The things that make good, well planned and organized change work so well are two… Benchmark Reconciliation Evaluation Benchmark reconciliation is simply looking at the data you…