Change Management
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Evans: Enterprise tech adoption poses management challenges rather than engineering hurdles
“Clearly the deployment of mainframes and data processing and spreadsheets and ERPs and so on Did kind of completely change the economics of your business, and that came with a whole bunch of challenges, most of which were really internal management challenges,…”
Cowan-Brown: Bottom-up SaaS fails when value requires change management
“It lands with a team, you expand, and that works when the tool is replacing or when the tool is making an individual better at the job that they already have. It fails and it gets complicated when the value requires real actual change management.”
Nejatian: Turnarounds require violently changing defaults without change management
“You need to figure out which defaults are killing the company and change them violently. There must not be change management. Because you want the change to feel jarring.”
Gil: Change management is one of the biggest obstacles to AI adoption
“I think one of the biggest issues for actually adoption of AI is change management. Changing processes, changing our organizational design. And I guess if you own the actual company, then you can make those changes. If you're just selling software, you can't r…”
Cohen: Releasing AI tools without change management yields only 5% adoption
“I think I see a lot of companies roll out their agents and just expecting companies to adopt. Doesn't work this way. Some will adapt. That tends to be kind of your cutting edge, five percent of talent that just wants new tools and they have a bias for change. …”
AI will force massive organizational change management within two to three years
“We're not there from the technology standpoint, but I do think in the next two to three years, if I, you know, take the bait and like have to make a guess is the technology will get to a point where it will push the change management and policy makers to say l…”
Jason James: Human change management is harder than building AI recruiters
“The thing that I know now that I wish I knew then The hardest part won't be building the technology that can be like an end-to-end autonomous AI recruiter. The hardest part is going to be change management. Working with the humans to adapt and get comfortable …”
Weatherhold: Organizations Teach People How to Think About Change, Not Speak to It
“That most people don't even recognize this as a need, that when we talk about change, particularly in organizational contexts, we teach people how to think about change, but we don't teach them how to speak to it. We don't even teach them that that is importan…”
Princen: Active user pricing reassures enterprise buyers against internal adoption risk
“And so this kind of idea of proactive user and active, you know, you can define companies spend, you know, hours defining what an active user is is actually much more reassuring for a customer because it kind of hedges the risk of change management training th…”