Top 10 Tips for a Successful HCM

Cloud Implementation

James King, Oracle

Duncan Davies, Cedar Consulting

Remember it’s a Service

• Mindset• Renting / Buying• When we Rent we adapt• When we buy we knock through

• Why?• Ease of upgrades in the future• Ease of taking new functionality in the future• Speed / Cost of implementation

Project Structure

Sponsorship

• Get a strong sponsor• This was always a good idea

• In the Cloud world..• Because you don’t knock through• Because there is change• Someone will need to remind

everyone else it’s a service!

Environment Management

It’s not Magic…

• if Managers or Employees didn’t use the old system….• Systems don’t change culture • Change Management is still important

• If the data was not up to date or maintained• Systems don’t fix poor or unfollowed process

• Change Management and good • (non system) process is still important

Self Sufficiency

Avoid Complexity…

• Many point to point integrations where never a good idea• Cloud amplifies the need for clean, simple integration

points.

• Adapt rather than knock through• Updates and Patches are a fact of life – so keeps things

simple

Updates and Upgrades

It’s Dynamic – so be ready

• It will change, develop, it will not stay still• The business needs to be set up to cope

Accept Change…

1 Remember it’s a service – adapt when you can2 Strong project governance – clear, decisive actions3 Strong Sponsorship is a real help4 Have a clear environment strategy5 It’s not magic – good practice still applies6 Do it Yourself7 Avoid Complexity8 Plan for upgrades9 Be ready for change10 Accept change

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