Change Management
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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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Me – SBS – and New Jersey – Today!
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I have been asked to speak at the SBS Group New Jersey Client Summit on Friday. I am going to talk about Accounting Automation solutions fitting or not fitting (that is the question). Not just fitting or not fitting, but fitting or not fitting as it pertains to Microsoft Dynamics. The SBS Group are…
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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…
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Capitalizing on Opportunities
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Yesterday I wrote about executing on change. In the middle of the post I wrote that those organization that are more prepared can capitalize on opportunities. It’s true, one of the great side benefits to doing good change management is the ability to have more time to search, evaluate and capture opportunities. Here are a…
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Executing Change
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Last week I wrote about the need to inventory your organization to prepare for change. I also wrote about benchmarking and communicating change. In a brief snapshot of all things change, the three previous articles have all to do with preparing yourself and your organization for the change. Think of the opposite of not being…
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Communicating Change
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In a post I wrote a few days ago, I mentioned that I had fallen into the role of change manager. I like the role and as I am frequently reminded change management is a very important part of automating accounting processes. One of the keys to good and positive change is communication. If change…
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Benchmarking Change
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Have you ever heard the saying, “if you don’t know where you are going, any road will lead you there”? The writer Lewis Carroll wrote those words. No truer words have ever been written about change. Benchmarking change is one of my favorite subject to write about. If you read my books or this blog just…
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Phase 1 – Taking Inventory for Change
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Yesterday I introduced change. Change has been around for a long time. I am sure that change was met with great enthusiasm by cavemen when they came home from hunting and their cave wives had moved all of their cave furniture. In my last post I wrote that there were three phases to change, today I am going…