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The migration to the cloud is happening at a tremendous pace. Putting an adoption framework in place becomes a critical need for business in order to be successful. However, this is not a simple task and requires a team effort, risk mitigation, and governance policies.

The pandemic of 2020 has brought digital transformation and critical decision making to the forefront. The speed of executing on a decision was increased, but many feared that the trade-offs between speed and quality would be detrimental. However, if big-bet decisions were made coupled with high velocity and high quality, then the payoffs were hugely beneficial in many areas.

Alkermes, a global biopharmaceutical leader headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with a research and development center near Boston, Massachusetts is using SAP Concur to digitally transform processes around automation to drive multiple efficiencies. Understand the why and how behind their strategy to learn how this can inform your decision making process around automation!

So your organization has decided to take the plunge and invest in a cloud service provider (CSP): Microsoft Azure. Maybe this is voluntary or alternatively through mergers and acquisitions, but the fact remains the same: Azure is likely an extension to your organizations’ on-premises enterprise network. Whether your organization is configured for a hybrid (cloud/on-premises) or completely cloud-native architecture, there are extensive security considerations. Azure is a fast-moving train; the technologies, services and integrations are constantly changing. Cloud service adoption rates are increasing, and an understanding of the Azure services, architecture, and security is critical. We’ll discuss many of the core security features and considerations that are fundamental tenets of a secure Azure environment.  Additionally, we will touch on a business continuity strategy in the event federation fails or on-premises service is no longer available. It is an ambitious topic, but one that will help you better approach and prioritize your Azure hardening initiatives.                                                                                                                                

SaaS and Cloud solutions are transforming the financial process and all of this is underlined by the emergence of Artificial Intelligence, creating a new function for CFO’s to become continuous strategy managers as opposed to daily financial managers. Fuelled by new data aggregation and digital reporting enabled by new and emerging solutions by organizations like HighRadius, today’s CFO can spend less time searching for information and more time planning and architecting the future of the business with other C-level executives.

Did you know that over 60% of CRM projects encounter serious user adoption and ROI issues? The struggle is real. But you’re not alone!

This non-technical session will include a full day of information on how to engage your team (leaders and users), improve your CRM solution, drive up adoption, and measurably improve results.

Our agenda for the day:

•The Annual Roadmap – Everything you need to know about engaging your team to build a roadmap to success. We’ll dive head first into what should be included in your CRM roadmap, how to built it, creating a vision, project planning, getting the team engaged, building your business case, measuring the ROI, benchmarking user satisfaction, working with your unique corporate culture, and constantly improving. Attendees will take away a workbook with a framework for planning to launch or improve your CRM project.

•Employee Surveys – A simple solution for giving everyone a voice. But with a twist on creating a gap analysis for better prioritization, persona analysis to identify differences across teams, and benchmarking to give CRM project leadership recognition for the success that they create.

•The Culture Factor – Why sociology, and not psychology, is at the heart of driving CRM adoption. The 6 cultural metrics, and how to work with them to create and better CRM adoption strategy.

•User Personas and the CRM Framework – A matrix for understanding your strengths and weaknesses, with over 20 different approaches for driving adoption. Material will be covered in a round-table format with attendees selecting and prioritizing areas for discussion and sharing their own stories of success and struggle; and instructors sharing lessons learned from the field.