Change
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Final Thoughts about Automation and Staff
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I hope you have enjoyed this part of the series about people and the benefits accounting automation can have on them. If I get my wish I will, in the near future, complete a book about technology and people. I have toyed with the title “Technology Does Nothing”. It is either an idea that is…
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Getting Fit With Automation… or Something Like That.
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Hi all – join me and my good friend in automation Mike Johnson from RPX Solutions for a 45 minute webinar about your clothes fitting properly. No… wait a minute. It’s not about your clothes fitting…. it’s about finding a good fit for you as an accounting professional…. now that’s not it either… Oh yea……
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Accounting Automation and the Operations Staff
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This is the last installment of writing about the types of people who can benefit from accounting automation. I have written about the benefits for the CFO the Controller and Technical Staff. The last group (certainly not the least) is the operational staff. I label them operational staff to encompass everyone else in the business.…
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Accounting Automation and The Tech Staff
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I consider myself a tech guy. I am not formally trained and I know about specific types of internet software…It doesn’t stop my dad from calling me every time his screen saver turns on and he claims it is broken. To continue to talk about automation and the people who it affects, the tech people…
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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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If Everything Stays in Vegas – Why are there so many cameras?
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I have always wondered how Las Vegas can get away with saying, “Everything that happens in Vegas – Stays in Vegas”. Las Vegas is the most photographed and videotaped city on the planet. Sure there is the army of impromptu journalist that at a moments notice will take out their smartphone and capture a moment in…
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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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Check out the Elmore kids reading…
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Well, the Princess and the Paper is almost ready for mass-distribution. I thought it would be entertaining to see my kids read a part of the book… enjoy – Kyle, Adelle, Ed and Ada reading and acting. Buy the book – The Argument to Automate – How Innovation Can INSPIRE Not Fire – click here to…