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Insights and practical applications from the FlexPoint Consulting team around business transformation, technology modernization, process optimization, and more.
Building Great Teams for Transformation
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.
How to See the Forest for the Trees in Transformation
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.
Navigating Transformation with Creativity and Courage
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.
A Recipe for Effective Change Management
Kim Ehrman shares the essential ingredients of change management, along with some of the personalizations and updates we’ve scribbled in the margins of change strategies and plans over the years, to help you in driving out effective change where it matters most.
How to Fix Program Status Reports
Michael Daehne shares four things to include in a status report, focusing on what will actually predict project success. These include team dynamic & collaboration, customer engagement & alignment, solution clarity, and what’s keeping people awake at night.
Beating the Odds: Resolutions & Transformations
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.
Bringing Next-Gen Tech to Finance
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.
Tips & Tricks to Avoid Being Spooked by Transformation
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.
Business Transformation Lessons from the UTSA Roadrunners
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!”
Five Lessons for the Cloud ERP Journey
In light of the common difficulties in adopting a new platform, FlexPoint Consulting Founder & CEO Michael Daehne shares five key tactics to de-risk your Cloud ERP journey and increase the probability of an on-time, on-budget, high-quality implementation.
Transforming Your Employee Experience
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.
Don’t Ignore “Optional Add-Ons” in 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.