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What’s your approach to change management?

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At what level is too much change for an organization to absorb?

Modernizing a 30-year-old mainframe system to the cloud
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Modernizing a new CX framework with the introduction of omnichannel capabilities
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Modernizing a new data platform and moving away from the hub and spoke data warehouse to a data lake on the cloud
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Several other mid-level enhancements...

Is it too much to take on at the same time? Or it all depends... How do you measure the appropriate level of change to introduce to an organization (Both IT and business)?

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What percentage of your software testing budget is allocated to regression testing?

None7%

1-25%53%

26-50%27%

51-75%6%

75-99%3%

All

N/A1%

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Does anyone have any experience implementing an Electronic Medical Record at national level across multiple health care institutions ? What strategy did you adopt? How did you approach the requirement gathering, design, and implementation processes? What were the main challenges you experienced?

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What challenges have you recently encountered in managing the increasing number of SaaS vendors within your organization? And how did you handle it?

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I'm reaching out to gather some numbers on change management to help us compare our efforts with other projects. Do you have any insights or data to share? We're especially interested in: User Training: Time and cost involved. Personalization: Efforts and benchmarks. Collaboration: Best practices and metrics. Estimated Loss of Productivity during transitions. Cost of Training overall expenses and ROI.

Can anyone share the tools/platform needed for IT Asset, Software and Vendor Management in banking ? Could be standalone, could also be CMDB related for higher quality management.

As a CIO, how do you gauge the readiness of various teams in your organization to adapt to changes introduced by IT?

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I have just been asked by an exec from another function to audit a critical project in their portfolio which does not appear to be going well. I have some ideas based on my own PMO experience, but wanted to explore how peers might think about approaching such an exercise.

Considerations:
- outside my main role
- risk of conflict with the leader providing project management services to this exec
- sensitivity within the other function to potential criticism of their governance
- readiness of the project team to provide relevant information

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What do you do when you're faced with employee resistance to application consolidation? Interested in your go-to tactics or strategies for managing change and encouraging adoption with a change-resistant team

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Have you ever been tasked with unifying your company around a single type of project management software? If yes, how long did it take? Reflecting on the process, what might have you done differently to expedite the process?

Which element of IT change management can afford to receive the least attention while still achieving success?

Risk management20%

Communication & engagement41%

Progress monitoring & feedback25%

Clear project planning10%

Employee training4%

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Agility does not equal speed.

Strongly agree8%

Agree61%

Neutral19%

Disagree7%

Strongly disagree3%

Unsure

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When it comes to your vision for change, how do you make sure your key stakeholders truly understand (and ideally embrace the changes you're proposing?

In your opinion, what could cloud providers do to truly address cloud lock-in concerns and give you more flexibility as a customer?

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Has anyone completed a transition to S4 Hana TMS/GTS/WM? What was your overall experience? What would you do differently?

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