In this age of rapid business innovation, some of the big questions involve how a company will upgrade and adopt new technologies to improve, and how it will react to big changes in a field or industry. One of these big questions is whether and how a firm will use expert “disruptors” to go in and figure out how to change business processes, to make them more modern and current.

This question also involves a good deal of complexity and consideration of risk. Bringing in disruptors is not a no-brainer or something that is guaranteed to work. Making big moves in technology or anything else is a gamble and requires due consideration of how to implement change. Here’s some of what we have found as a top staffing services firm.

Open to Change

The first core question is whether the company is open to change or not. Key factors involve whether the company is, at present, stable and confident about operations, and also the mentality of top leadership. Executives have to be curious people and people are open to new ideas. Otherwise, the company is unlikely to invite anyone to try to change and improve processes.

Consultants or Insiders?

The company also has to make the decision of whether to try to get in-house people the skills they need to improve company processes, or whether to go with outside consultants. There are pros and cons to both, although in-house promotion is becoming a major part of many successful corporate cultures.

In going with consultants, trust is ultimately important. The company has to have confidence that the consultants know what they’re doing, and they have to have the ability to take suggestions. At the same time, trust is a two-way street, and companies have to look out for consultants who seem too aggressive, not targeted to the company’s needs, or improperly focused, or who try to push the company into too much change, too quickly.

Ready for Training and Implementation

Big new changes are also an investment. The company has to be ready to train people at all levels of staff, especially those who are most in contact with the new technologies and systems. Without training, a lot of these projects end up failing.

Support

Training is one pillar of getting new processes in place successfully. Another is vendor support.

Support is everything. Having a supportive environment allows you to work through problems to refine and improve work processes. Having an unsupportive environment can cause the whole thing to become a big step backward for a company. With competent in-house leaders and outside vendors and consultants working together, a company can get the right change, the kind of change it needs.

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