Frances Harpst
Engagement Manager,
Cisco Systems
   

Presentation:

Level: Experienced    Topic Area: Emerging Trends, Innovative Ideas

"Achieving Targeted Business Results with Collaboration Technologies"

Technologies that enable people to collaborate effectively - including web conferencing, telepresence, instant messaging, mobile applications and enterprise social software, the "Facebook for business" - deliver capabilities that have the potential to transform the workplace. Collaboration Change Management increases adoption and utilization of collaboration technologies to achieve targeted business results. Collaboration Change Management is unique from traditional change management in several ways, including:

  • Collaboration technologies are layered over an organization's existing collaboration culture

  • The "to-be state" and expected business value are often conceptual and not measurable

  • Business value to the organization depends on widespread adoption

  • Adoption is personal and discretionary requiring a deep change in personal work styles

  • Individuals must experience a direct benefit in their day to day work for adoption to be sustained

  • Collaboration technologies are typically launched virally - "Build it and they will come"

Cisco will share their collaboration change management strategy and case studies of how customers accelerate and sustain adoption of collaboration technologies to achieve their expected business benefits and ROI.

Key Takeaways:

  1. Learn the unique challenges of collaboration technology adoption

  2. Understand change management best practices when adoption of these technologies is discretionary

  3. Learn new change management value curve when change is discretionary and "to-be" state is undefined

  4. Learn how customers leverage collaboration change management to achieve targeted business results

Biography:
Frances Harpst is an Engagement Manager at Cisco Systems in the Collaboration Change Management Services consulting practice. This team helps customers accelerate the adoption of Cisco Collaboration solutions to achieve the targeted ROI that justified the purchase. Frances specializes in managing organizational change to achieve the targeted business goals of technology implementations. Frances began her career on Wall Street and led change management projects in 9 Fortune 500 companies. For the past 13 years, Frances has been working for Silicon Valley technology firms helping customers successfully adopt technologies and achieve their targeted business results.

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