by Elise Olding | April 8, 2013 | 2 Comments
The challenge in many organizations is that we have a strong propensity to jump to the solution. When the going gets tough merely having a solution in mind doesn’t get us out of the quagmire – particularly when it may not have been the 100% right solution to start with. It’s easy to lose our [...]
Category: BPM employee engagement ERP Gartner Organizational Change Strategic Planning Uncategorized Tags: big programs, executive sponsorship, transformation, vision alignment, vision statement
by Elise Olding | February 28, 2012 | 4 Comments
The majority of my interactions with clients lately have been about organizational change. It is becoming more of an executive level conversation as leaders are realizing the importance of paying attention to the people dynamics and understanding the consequences when they don’t. “Where to start?” is a question I’m commonly asked. Here’s the 100,000 foot view that I recently [...]
Category: Organizational Change Strategic Planning Uncategorized Tags: adaptable workforce, PMO, PPM
by Elise Olding | February 14, 2012 | 3 Comments
I have had 4 1/2 great years with the Gartner BPM team. It’s been fun shaping the research, meeting everyone at the conferences and writing research. I’m sad to leave good friends and wonderful collegues. The good news is that I will be at all the Gartner BPM Summits this year! I’m now onto my next [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: BPM, Organizational Change, PMO, PPM
by Elise Olding | March 2, 2011 | Submit a Comment
The BPM Summit is March 7th and 8th and I’m looking forward to interacting with the attendees. Attending and presenting at a conference is one of the best parts of my job. It’s great give and take – I can share insights with attendees and I also hear so many fascinating examples of successes and [...]
Category: BPM Gartner Organizational Change Uncategorized Tags: BPM, BPM Summit, operational resilience, organizational liquidity, social BPM
by Elise Olding | September 22, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’ve been at Oracle Open World this week. One of my takeaway is that things will change and change big time. The shifts that will come from moving to virtualization and the cloud are huge. They also seem to be somewhat ignored in the majority of sessions, save for KPMG and PwC discussing them in [...]
Category: BPM Organizational Change Strategic Planning Uncategorized Tags: BPM, business change, Cloud, oracle open world, Organizational Change
by Elise Olding | August 24, 2010 | 4 Comments
I had an interesting discussion today (along with many others lately). The topic centers on why it’s difficult to get an organization to embrace methods to deal with the people issues – communication, engagement and overall involvement. For those of us that do this sort of work, it seems obvious why you need good communication [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: change management bpm
by Elise Olding | July 28, 2010 | 7 Comments
This is my first blog entry!!!! Over the past few years I have guest blogged in Jim Sinur’s blog. However, it’s time for my own! I tend to tweet – but sometimes there’s just more to say than 140 characters will allow! So, just to kick things off some things about me: I’ve been with [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: BPM, change management, scuba diving
