Rizing Evolution – The Future Proofed Enterprise Podcast

Episode 4 Summary: Organized for Success: Technology Alone Won’t Make You a Hero

This podcast episode features a panel discussion on the role of technology in business transformation. The host, Bonnie Graham, introduces four panelists with diverse business, technology, and organizational change backgrounds.

Key points from each panelist:

Dean Edmondson, a senior Rizing executive with 30 years of experience in business transformation, emphasizes that transformation is not just about technology:

“It’s not just about technology. So, when we go through transformation, it’s about human transformation as well. Understanding how to move people to a different capacity, a different capability and put them into places that they might never have thought of being before based on technology based on business processes based on where organizations want to go and competitively differentiate themselves.”

Lawrence Bergman, who leads Business Development for Enterprise Asset Management at Rizing, stresses the importance of engaging employees in transformation:

“You’ve really got to find a way to energize the base, get folks interested in transformation, get them engaged. But you want them standing shoulder to shoulder with you when you go live, and they understand it’s not going to be perfect, but it is going to transform the way they do their work, the way they execute it, and frankly, the value that they get out of it as employees.”

Megan Butler, a Future of Work Strategist for Rizing, discusses the social aspects of technology adoption:

“Regardless of the technology, the adoption rate is different. So why? Why can we use the same technology and adopt it differently in different organizations? And it comes down to understanding the social technical processes that are going on.”

Dr. Steve Hunt, Chief Expert for Work and Technology at SAP, highlights the constant nature of human psychology amidst technological change:

“The thing that doesn’t change about work is people, the fundamental psychology of people… People don’t evolve very fast. We don’t change, we do adapt, and a lot of the work that I do focus on how do we use technology to create more effective workforces to adapt to a changing world, taking into account the one constant that we have in an organization, which is the fundamental psychology of people.”

The discussion emphasizes that while technology is a crucial component of business transformation, success depends on effectively managing the human aspects of change, including employee engagement, organizational culture, and understanding the fundamental psychology of people in the workplace.

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