Business Transformation Consultant, Henry Howard, shares tried-and-true techniques throughout a ten-stage process of selecting and implementing an enterprise platform. This comprehensive post covers everything from negotiating, scoping, migration, and celebrating after launch.

Business readiness experts, Pedro Cortez and Liz Pryor, describe key elements in planning a transformative effort. They share questions to ask, guidance, and examples around program structures, testing, defect management, training, and much more.

Strategy and visioning expert Kim Ehrman shares thoughts on defining a business transformation, including success criteria, risk management, and more. Key outputs of this stage are a future state vision and a transformation roadmap.

Business readiness experts, Liz Pryor and Pedro Cortez, share thoughts on prepping your org for transformation. They share questions to ask, guidance, and examples around prioritization, work management, alignment, and more.

Kim Ehrman shares a series of audit questions and tips for success around preparing for the next big turning point in your business, including how your team works together, how you deliver as promised, using strategic stretch roles, and prioritizing finances.

Kim Ehrman shares four recommendations to realize lasting benefits without scope creep: specify a clear and compelling why, create an intuitive and accessible backlog, build in scalability, and embrace structured continuous improvement.

Michael Daehne describes the framework we use when working with new executives to set their team up for long-term success. Using a structured approach helps to make sure we don’t miss an important element among the many details of navigating a new role.

Rachel Rubin reflects on how to avoid workarounds in architecture and code based on her experience in consulting and technology firms. She recommends fostering a culture that prioritizes clean coding and building in safeguards like tech debt clean-up sprints.

Kim Ehrman draws lessons learned from how Carousel Motor Group built a great team to roll out their pre-owned car-buying experience, Carousel Online. Key to success were customer-centric vision, thoughtfully applied skillsets, and realistic expectations.

Kim Ehrman shares techniques to see the forest for the trees across transformation programs, and ultimately to drive transformational success. These include welcoming and heeding various perspectives, minding the gaps between workstreams, and more.

Fifty-four years later this month, FlexPoint Consulting Founder & CEO Michael Daehne reflects on the creativity and courage required to navigate a moment of crisis in Apollo 8 -- and how we can apply lessons learned to transformation challenges.

As a new year begins, FlexPoint Consulting Founder & CEO Michael Daehne shares tips for making your big transformation initiative (and your new year’s resolution) a resounding success.

In light of digital disruption all around us, Michael Daehne highlights opportunities to embrace next-generation technologies within four key areas of finance: recording, controlling, planning & analysis, and tax.

As Halloween approaches, Michael Daehne shares tips to avoid being “spooked” by your business transformation initiative. These include: beware the ghosts of past projects, don’t treat “the way we do things around here” as hallowed ground, and more.

FlexPoint Consulting Founder & CEO Michael Daehne applies lessons from the UT San Antonio Roadrunners to excelling through transformation. They start with “culture eats strategy for breakfast” and end with “don’t eat the cheese!”

FlexPoint Consulting Founder & CEO Michael Daehne explains what employee experience is, why leaders of all organizations should care about EX, and how you can successfully navigate employee experience transformation.

Drawing from personal experience, FlexPoint Consulting Founder & CEO Michael Daehne likens optimizing the user experience and supporting user adoption to “optional add-ons” in cars that are actually crucial to success.