The Importance of Training during SAP Implementation
SAP Implementations or Rollouts, bring with them Significant process, Technology, and organizational changes. Developing a Training plan & Change Management Plan for all business units is an absolute requirement, as the lack of an effective Training Plan is one of the main reasons why SAP rollouts fail. In this blog we will discuss why it is important to invest in Training Plan to achieve a successful SAP implementation.
Helps Understanding the Impact of the Project
One of the first actions of a Training & Change Management strategy is to perform an Impact Assessment, this can help you evaluate how disruptive the transition is going to be. According to Gartner, “Enterprise leaders get an opportunity to understand the potential organizational “growing pains,” business disruptions, costs, and other impacts, so they can determine whether the organization is willing and able to make the changes. It also gives the project team an opportunity to adjust achieve a more acceptable level of business impact before starting development activities that would potentially need to be redone if the design is changed later in the project.”
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Ensures Local Buy-in
Typically, SAP projects introduce massive changes in organizations, but too often companies focus on the major scheme of things and don’t focus on the impact it has on employee’s tasks or even their job roles.
So, it does not wonder, that sometimes these changes are met with some resistance.
A Training Plan & Change Management strategy would promote help employees to accept the changes by establishing proper communication channels for that would inform them about the goals of the transition, it benefits, and the way their day to day jobs would change and improve.
Training Facilitates User Adoption
When an SAP is implemented, employees are expected to learn and adopt to the new software interfaces and features.
An Effective training plan & strategy helps minimizing the learning curve by including training initiatives that help employees to plunge into the new work flows as soon as possible.
Training Expedites Investment ROI
Rolling out SAP brings a lot of benefits, but your company can only reap its benefits if employees are making the most out of it. Effective Training engages employees quicker and guarantees they take full advantage of the SAP’s features, helping them become more productive and improve their performance.
When employee’s productivity improves, the overall performance of the organization also improves.
Training is often overlooked in SAP Projects for lack of time and cost-saving initiatives but companies need to understand it is vital to success. Business stake holders and project managers must invest resources and time to put a Training plan in place before diving into an SAP implementation.
