“Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.” — Anton Chekhov Scope creep, or the addition […]
Posts Tagged ‘best practices’
Translate Your Community Builder Template
As a Salesforce consultant, I rarely expect my French major to come in handy. Today, I put it to good use as I went to test out translation features in the Community Builder, known in French apparently as the “Générateur de communauté”, from inside the Winter ’16 Napili template. Here is what I learned: You […]
Uber Bets Its API Will Transform Your Ride
One of the technology points we make in digital transformation is that you cannot just focus on the front end. Failure to leverage all your assets in creating a great customer experience means you will probably be left behind. Venture Beat has an article on Uber’s API Bet. Their vision is very specific and entirely […]
Top 5 Digital Transformation Best Practices: 2. Vision and Goals
This is relatively simple but a step in your digital transformation you can’t skip. Most every company has a strategy. Your digital strategy should align to your overall company strategy. For example, if you differentiate yourself in your marketplace by targeting a specific type of client or by being a full service, high touch type […]
Top 5 Digital Transformation Best Practices: 1. Gain Insight
As the year closes, you start to think about what works and what doesn’t, especially in the context of the conversations you’ve had with real-life companies. There are a variety of best practices but I’ll pick my top five and start out with what some would consider the most obvious, gain insights and understand your […]
Employee Engagement Isn't Getting Better, Here's Why
Linkedin Pulse had a great article on a recent Gallup Survey showing employee engagement improving by 2% over the past three years. Here’s the incredible market wide statistic: only 32.1% of employees are engaged. That means 67.9% of employees aren’t engaged. While I cannot do the entire article justice (it’s one of the more informative articles […]
Employee Engagement Isn’t Getting Better, Here’s Why
Linkedin Pulse had a great article on a recent Gallup Survey showing employee engagement improving by 2% over the past three years. Here’s the incredible market wide statistic: only 32.1% of employees are engaged. That means 67.9% of employees aren’t engaged. While I cannot do the entire article justice (it’s one of the more informative articles […]
Tracking Success: What to Expect Engaging a Salesforce Partner
How to track your Salesforce project’s success and what to expect when engaging with Perficient as your Salesforce implementation partner on a weekly basis. Great news – your organization just purchased Salesforce and now you’re looking for a Salesforce partner and team of consulting experts, like Perficient, to support your team’s implementation. Whether it is […]
What To Do When Your Salesforce Project Stalls
Sometimes Salesforce projects don’t stop, they slow down, sputter, and you can’t seem to get them restarted or firing on all cylinders. These projects aren’t always failures – they just need a thorough tune-up and clear path to get them back on the road. As such, below are the top reasons for a project stall […]
The Slow Adoption of Change Management
In a recent Perficient webinar, The Internal Impacts of a Digital Transformation, a real-time poll was taken on the topic of whether participants and their respective organizations had a team in place responsible for Organizational Change Management (OCM)? Not surprisingly, less than one in three did. The good news is that figure is infinitely higher […]
Change is Hard and That’s OK!
As the title states, change is hard. Most people (yes, there are a few of you out there who love and embrace change) are resistant to anything new. A recent poll of participants during a Perficient webinar on the Internal Impacts of a Digital Transformation indicated that culture changes, process changes, and other “change management” […]
Perspectives: Is Colocation Necessary for Salesforce? – Part 2
Yesterday my colleague, Shawn Jensen, wrote a blog discussing why colocation is not vital to the success of Salesforce projects. Today, I’m making a counterargument as to why colocation is essential to a successful project. While you can make solid arguments for or against both of our perspectives, the purpose of this friendly debate is to simply help you weigh the pro’s and con’s […]