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The Technology Change Book : Change the way you think about technology change / Tricia Emerson and Mary Stewart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Emerson, Tricia, author.
- Stewart, Mary (Consultant), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Organizational change--Management.
- Organizational change.
- Technological innovations--Management.
- Technological innovations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Alexandria, VA : ASTD Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As change goes, technology implementation is as big as it gets. Technology is a breathtaking investment. It often takes significant revenue and heck of a lot of work, devouring profitability, time, focus, and energy. Why do we do it? For the huge upsides: competitiveness, survival, domination, success. This book is for anyone whose neck is on the line to deliver.How do you make sure you deliver? The key is to get people to use technology correctly. Technology is a tool. If you can't harness the power of the people in your organization to use that tool correctly, you've lost. Authors Tricia Emerson and Mary Stewart, lifetime change professionals, posed a question to themselves and their colleagues: What do you wish you had known when you started your toughest technology project? The result is The Technology Change Book.The tools in this book will help you: * Build a case for change. * Learn how to build a change team and create a change plan. * Communicate effectively. * Measure behavior change and react appropriately.
- Contents:
- Intro
- cover2
- cover3
- Content
- Preface
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- SECTION 1: The Case for Change
- What's Your Problem?
- Making Your Case
- The Best Board Pitch Ever
- How to Budget Like a Winner
- How Will You Know Whether It Worked?
- Crickets
- SECTION 2: The Team and the Plan
- It's Elementary...
- Lead From the Ground Up
- Do We Really Need a Sponsor?
- The Best and the Best
- You Complete Us
- Get Onto My Cloud
- Disruption Preparedness
- Look for the Union Label
- Chunk It
- The Window
- Target Behaviors
- "As Is" Is Essential to Your "To Be"
- The Beauty Is in the Details
- The Center of the Universe
- SECTION 3: The Build
- Too Much of a Good Thing
- On a Role
- Try Our New Flavor: Intuitive Vanilla
- How Do You Learn to Use a Cloud?
- Failing to Learn
- Don't Forget the Steady State
- Super Users, Super Stars
- Don't Just Communicate
- Need to Know Basis
- The Toolmaker's Children
- Hot Potato Is a Kid's Game
- Ain't Nothin' Like the Real Thing Baby
- SECTION 4: The Delivery
- Five Stars
- Stimulus, Response
- Measure and React
- Lights. Camera. Action.
- Failure Is Not an Option
- Get the Context Right
- Sweat the Small Stuff
- Help! I Need Somebody
- It's Alive
- Step Up™
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781607285458
- 1607285452
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