It involves optimizing the business process, a big operation, time, and all the lines of business. No matter what stage you’re at, all budget must be allocated and the meetings would have started to decide on:

• Business Motivation
• Governance Model
• Current operating Model
• Benefits Model
• Target Operating model
• Road Map Model and the list goes on

Finally, the technology is in place, and after many tests, everyone is looking forward to the most important day of the project: the system is going live. Yes, we finally succeed in transforming our beloved organization or NOT? I have observed that user acceptance and user adoption play a vital role in every organization. And even after spending millions and millions, the important question is still unanswered-how are we going to train our employees?

Business transformation is a time-consuming process and involves a lot of money and organization resources like technical, business, etc. Considering the expectations everyone has from a project, everybody is under some pressure to implement it ASAP.. However, it’s important to remember not to fall into this rat trap of processing and implementing the project sooner. Most of the organizations forget the last step i.e user acceptance and user adoption. The last mile of digital transformation, in my opinion, is one of the most important stages, and it usually requires each organization to put in some extra effort.

Things to remember to ensure better user acceptance and user adoption: 

Software integration takes time:

Remember, software integration is a time-consuming process, and it doesn’t happen in isolation. It’s important to let users know of the change beforehand and making them familiar with the project based on their role and responsibility. It would help you ensure a smooth transition.

Don’t avoid testing:

Don’t make assumptions. Testing is the foundation of each project, and this statement is true when it comes to user adoption. Ignoring this step can be the root cause of the failure of your digital transformation project.

Training plays a vital role:

Needless to say the training of end-users plays a vital role in user adoption and user acceptance. There are various e-learning technologies that you can choose from, like screenshot technology and cloning technology.

The last mile is one of the crucial phases of business transformation and is usually the deciding factor for the success of the project. Is it wise to get answers to questions like user adoption, user acceptance, user training, etc after so much time and effort has been put in, or do we want that answer as soon as possible in the project? In my opinion, the Last Mile of Business Transformation is user adoption and user acceptance, and it will be the deciding factor of the success of your business transformation, or do you disagree with that?

This article first published at Assima website.