Business needs must drive the digital workplace. This starts with alignment to the direction of your organization and company culture.
By implementing change management best practices, you can align the human and technological aspirations of the digital workplace with a company’s overall business plan. Change, which is inevitable, can also be desirable. Improved agility, productivity, and market competitiveness are the results of well-planned, carefully-integrated change.
Create a detailed project pitch and present it to stakeholders. Concerns — even resistance — are to be expected. You may encounter outright resistance from multiple angles:
- You may have trouble convincing management that the status quo ought to be shifted. They fear profit decline and all that comes with it.
- Employees may find new protocols and applications excessively difficult and may worry about their job security should they be unable to adjust to new technology.
And be sure to guarantee training for everyone. Offer multiple training sessions, not just a single one-off seminar.