What’s more important to you, manage or succeed a corporate IT project?
Today, with all the technological innovation and project management skills at our fingertips, the number of projects that fail is unbelievable. Some experts estimate that up to 70 percent of corporate technology projects either fail to achieve their business objectives or fail completely, crashing and burning in mid-flight.
Dedicate enough time & energy to identifying your business objectives
The most common mistake we see during projects is too few efforts are dedicated to identifying what The Last Mile will be.
If you don’t know what your Last Mile is, how can you succeed your project?
A corporate IT project is a success when all business needs are met, not when software implementation is completed
Nobody else than business users can express their specific needs and exactly how they want them to be addressed. Too often we at Heavenize have witnessed corporate IT projects where no business user was directly involved, especially a business user who has a decision power.
Moreover, many organisations believe a corporate IT project is a success when software implementation is completed. Sorry, but it’s just the point where functional issues start to arise, and more often than not, it’s too late to solve them because of technology limitations.
Communication between business & technology teams is the key to success
We at Heavenize have also encountered many projects where business and technology teams could not communicate properly with one another.
Business users may not always be able to express their needs in a clear and meaningful way, and IT staff may not be willing to spend enough time interviewing their users, questioning, and analysing those needs.
Consultants, who are experts in converting business needs into functional and technical terms
Involvement of top management is compulsory
You, as a top manager, are engaging a multi-million budget in order to provide your business teams with the best business software possible.
Are you really going to leave the outcome of this corporate IT project in the hands of people who do not have the full picture of the company business priorities, or the legitimacy to make things happen?
Top management, who have the power to decide and move projects forward on both business & technical levels, should be deeply involved in corporate IT projects, because their entire business is at stake.
User experience is crucial to user adoption and satisfaction
Before engaging into a long and heavy software implementation project, you should know precisely what your business users’ expectations & requirements are, not only functionally, but also in terms of user experience.
Your business users need functionalities, but they also need to be able to use these in an intuitive and familiar way, or they won’t use the software at all.
How much time and money are you ready to spend training your business users on software usage?
The better the user experience, the less time & money is spent on software training.
Heavenize can walk you through The Last Mile
No matter what the maturity of your corporate IT project may be, or the technology behind your legacy software, Heavenize functional and technical consultants can help you define business and functional goals, design the best user experience, increase the efficiency of your project management, accelerate the pace, and ultimately walk you through The Last Mile.
