Successful transformation starts with people, not just technology.
IT-Enabled Transformation
When ERP projects derail, organizations face challenges across three main areas:
- People Dissatisfaction
- Limited adoption of the system
- Use of shadow spreadsheets
- High volume of support tickets, often preferring old methods
- Lack of engagement from middle management
- Business Disruption
- Invoicing issues
- Inventory imbalances
- Data incompatibility
- Endless “hyper-care” (continuous firefighting)
- Top Management Pressure
- Tensions among top executives
- Finance struggles with unreliable numbers
- Misalignment of processes across entities
- Local entities resist or fail to buy in
Ultimately, everyone blames “the system.”
Minimize Disruption. Maximize Adoption and Business Impact.
Bridging the Gap Between Systems and Success
Large-scale system implementation is a major investment – and the risks of disruption are high. Success isn’t just about the technology; it’s about the people. Employees must be prepared, engaged and equipped to embrace change.
Projects often deliver fewer benefits than expected, creating a “Value Gap” between planned and realized outcomes.
Why ERP and other big IT-Projects Derail?
The underlying issue: Process and system dominate everything and are not linked to people nor performance.
Organizations invest heavily in systems and processes, yet the biggest factor in success is often overlooked—people. Technology lays the foundation for transformation, but people bring it to life. Their understanding, engagement and commitment determine whether change succeeds — or falls short of its potential.
The P³ Formula Leverages People, Process And Performance KPIs Towards Transformation Success
The P³ Formula (People, Process, Performance) is a framework for driving transformation success by tightly linking three elements:
- People & Process Alignment
- Translating processes into people’s daily routines.
- Integrating people’s realities into local processes.
- Performance (KPIs)
- Objectively measuring what truly matters to ensure progress and accountability.
At the core, success comes from continuously balancing and reinforcing the interaction between People, Processes, and Performance metrics.
The Metric-driven Benefits
The benefits of the approach can be made tangible in 3 key measures, here the example of the roll out of a new ERP system of a global FMCG company:
- Business Back to Normal
- Recovery time reduced from 6 weeks to 3 weeks.
- Outcomes: Business processes resume faster, with less disruption and firefighting.
- Hyper-care
- Duration cut from 4 months to 2 months.
- Outcomes: Lower resource costs, higher data quality, and fewer workarounds.
- User Adoption (First Two Weeks)
- Adoption increased from 60% to 90%.
- Outcomes: More competent and confident people, with improved processes delivering expected value.
In essence, these metrics show how to drive faster recovery, reduced costs, higher data quality, and stronger user adoption, ensuring transformations deliver their intended impact.
How To Apply P³ Step By Step and Reliably Eliminate The Broken Practices
In each phase of the transformation, we implement powerful solutions to link People, Process, and Performance.
Examples for interventions include:
- Transformation Readiness & Strategy
- Goal: Unified Executive Leadership
- Activity Example: Executive Alignment Workshops:
- Shared vision
- Owned transformation goals
- Results:
- Aligned powerful messaging
- Aligned on one KPI-Sheet
- Communication & Engagement
- Goal: Staff informed & engaged
- Activity Example: Change Discovery Workshops:
- Translate target state into daily reality
- What’s changing, why, how it impacts me?
- How can we make best use of this?
- Result: 90% of staff feeling well-prepared for the change
- Training & Capability Building
- Goal: Staff ready from Day 1
- Activity Example: Business Simulations & Role-based Labs:
- Train early, in sync with testing
- Real data & workflows instead of click-throughs
- Results:
- 85% already practiced transactions
- 90% adoption after 2 weeks
- Go Live & Hypercare
- Goal: Quick ramp up of human performance – not just tech
- Activity Example: Hypercare Huddles:
- From Day 1 with Line managers
- Spot & resolve blockers instantly
- Share success stories
- Results:
- Short hypercare, 2 months only
- Quick ramp up, 3 weeks only
- Value Creation
- Goal: Reliably realizing the expected business benefits like OTIF, productivity, etc.
- Activity Example: Value Realization Dashboard:
- Closely monitor progress on business KPIs and solve issues very quickly
- Result: ROI realization
Your Transformation, Our Expertise.
Your system is only as powerful as the people who use it. We help you unlock its full potential by ensuring your teams are not just prepared – but fully engaged and empowered to achieve success. With OXYGY’s expertise in Value-Driven Change Management, we make transformation stick – so you see real results, not just another rollout.
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