We have just passed the one-year mark since the World Health Organization announced a global pandemic. We’ve seen the world come to a standstill as the coronavirus upended daily lives. Now that the U.S. is starting to roll out vaccinations and slowly return to a semblance of normality, there are things in the healthcare system that have changed. Here are some of the lasting changes:
Angelo Mazzocco recently joined the Avaap Advisory Services team, bringing years of CIO experience as well as a view from the enterprise technology buyer perspective. We asked him to share insight to guide the decision process when buying ERP or other enterprise software.
In the words of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, women belong in all places where decisions are being made. As we celebrate International Women’s Day, we look to the women who paved the path for an inclusive and equitable future.
With the rapid shift to remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, institutions have faced the challenge of reaching students outside the traditional campus setting. Students and faculty have had to adapt to remote work, remote teaching, and remote learning, with institutions needing to come up with unique ways to reach students where there is a technology divide.
More health system CIOs are leading their organizations to the cloud, benefiting from how a single, cloud-based ERP system can help better track supplies, improve scheduling, and lower overhead costs.
For organisations wanting to start their digital transformation journey this year, many will hit a change fatigue roadblock, discovering it is daunting to just think of the logistics involved amid remote work and pandemic uncertainty. With years of experience offering a blend of onsite and remote resources, Avaap consultants made an early transition at the start of COVID-19 concerns to execute fully or partially remote implementations and are eager to share the success secrets.
The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman explains different ways people experience and express love. You may already know what your love language is - are you a quality time person? Or maybe you value acts of service. Avaap’s love language is a successful ERP implementation. Here’s how we know:
In our previous resilience blog post, we described strategies you can employ for strengthening the resilience muscle and how, positive relationships can bolster personal resilience and are important for supporting others, especially as they navigate setbacks and disruption. As working patterns have shifted significantly to remote networks, employees are left without the personal interactions that they’ve been accustomed to and are crucial for healthy engagement. According to a recent Gartner survey of 800 HR Executives, 88 percent of organizations have encouraged or required employees to work from home related to COVID-19.
This year has been one for the books. Social distancing, wearing masks, new hand washing routines all against a backdrop of social, economic and political unrest. We have all learned lessons on how adaptable and flexible we are or aren’t as individuals and organizations. 2020 has brought so much change that we are now living in a fatigued state. Gaining some insight into the mechanics of fatigue can help you take a pause to refresh, reset, and focus on the way forward with a different mindset.
As countries experience second or third waves of the coronavirus pandemic, many including the United Kingdom, are going back into lockdown. While organisations are more prepared than the first time around, those on legacy technology are at a disadvantage, likely only scraping by with tedious and time-consuming workarounds to maintain continuity and minimize disruption. Although it might seem counter-intuitive, now is the perfect time to embark on transformation, invest in modern cloud technology, and bring innovation to your operations.