You’ve devoted the better part of a year espousing the importance a workforce management solution to replace your company’s, current manual process. You provided senior leadership with return on investment (ROI) charts, various business cases including tips on how you plan to phase in the implementation. And, finally after what seems like years in the making, you got the word that the executive management team has approved the project. You can finally rejoice you’ve got the power! Now what?
Select a project lead (preferably someone in HR, finance and/or payroll) and if that happens to be you-that’s even better, and start by; reviewing, collecting, and discussing the type of data you want in your new system. Also, you should assemble your project team and start your discussion with some of the following questions:
Project Plans
- How long is this going to take to implement?
- How bad is your current, employee data capture?
- What work needs to be done?
- How many functional users need access to the software?
- Do you have a list of the most pressing items that needs to be addressed?
Data migration is an important step that should not be overlooked. After all, since you about to deploy a workforce management solution, you should avail your company with the 21st century tools that complements the product.
Data Migration and Analytics
- Other than your payroll, ERP, CRM and HRIS software are there any other interfaces that will be required?
- How much history are we going to migrate and do we really need all that history or can we save it in the cloud or a disc?
- Are there specific reports that will be of value to your everyday life and if so, what are they?
The “training wheels” will, have to come off at some point, which means you and other functional users will have to start making use of the training that you were provided during the implementation. Hopefully, your trainer is readily available to answer your questions and provide additional support as needed.
Post Project
- Does the project lead (that’s you) remains the main point of contact?
- Who’s going to be your back-up when you are on vacation?
- Are all functional users fully trained?
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