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    When Every Day Matters: Moving the curve with data

    Key among concerns with Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 is its rate of contagion and deadly effects on those susceptible. Recognizing that every day matters in flattening the curve, the Ohio Department of Health is increasing transparency to citizens, and using data to show if social distancing, raised awareness for proper hand-washing, travel restrictions, and other measures are buying more time for the state health systems as they prepare for potential waves and surges of the disease.

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    4 OCM Tactics to Avoid Project Heart Break

    Large organizational changes, like an ERP implementation or upgrade, affect many people and processes. When not handled correctly, these changes can lower productivity and morale. The Avaap Organizational Change Management (OCM) team offers some words of wisdom on how to avoid project heartbreak when initiating organizational change in this special Valentine’s Day treat.

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    How does HR impact your ERP Project Team?

    An ERP implementation is unlike any other project. The stress is enormous, the process is unfamiliar, and once you start, there is no going back. It should not come as a surprise, then, that existing human resource policies rarely are prepared for many of the ERP team issues that arise, and often, HR questions are left for the project manager to sort through. What follows is not a guidebook on how to handle these issues; just a few examples of things you will run into, and why they get complex quickly.

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    3 Tips to Improve Your ERP User Access Strategy

    Users of any ERP system must have access to the right data at the right time. This ERP user access must be policed, in other words, they can’t have access to everything, all the time. This is especially true when you consider that 37% of your employees, on average, use your ERP system. This includes anyone from a worker on the shop floor to your CEO, but each employee requires different levels of access to data.  Here are some useful pieces of advice to improve your ERP user access strategy.

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    4 Surprisingly Simple Steps to ERP Project Employee Buy-In

    A lot of ERP implementation projects fail. And a failure to get ERP employee buy-in is one of the primary reasons. On average, 37% of employees use a company’s ERP system according to a Software Path report; that’s a big percentage of your workforce that needs to be invested in using the system to its full capability. Let’s look at a few ways to improve the odds that employees will buy-in or even push to get that new ERP.

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