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- 1. Adoption: Get on the Right Track, Right Away Susan Perdew, salesforce.com Cheryl O’Connor, Analog Devices, Inc. Steve Settelmayer, Neff Rental, Inc. Admin I: Getting Started
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- 3. Introduction – Adoption: Get on the Right Track Does “Adoption Strategy” have a prominent position in your plan? Adoption Strategy???
- 4. Introduction – Adoption: Get on the Right Track Ten Tips for User Adoption Establish the “Pre” Sale Early Top Down, Bottom Up, and Across People and Processes Salesforce = Command Center Productivity Tools Manage to the Application Training Validate Adoption Carrots and Sticks Feedback Loop
- 5. Cheryl O’Connor Worldwide CRM Strategy Manager
- 6. All About Analog Devices, Inc. INDUSTRY: High Tech Semiconductor EMPLOYEES: 9000 GEOGRAPHY: Global PRODUCT(S) USED: Salesforce SFA, Successforce Support, AppExchange # USERS: 800 (live Nov 2003) Leading Semiconductor manufacturer 800 users on five continents $2.5B Annual Revenue NYSE ADI
- 7. Adoption Challenges General Adoption Challenge Definition What’s in it for me (WIIFM) changed Sales & marketing negative cycle Data quality and timeliness Resources Culture Challenge Accountability/Freedom Silos Prove it
- 8. Best Practices for User Adoption Top Down, Bottom Up, and Across Executive sponsorship End user advocates What if you don’t have it Productivity and Collaboration Tools Dashboards/Reports that “think” like the user Custom objects Visit Reports, Goaling, Account Plans Communication templates
- 9. Best Practices for User Adoption, cont’d Validate Adoption Define it! Not just who, how often and when Name, Role, Job Type, Mgr, Location How often new features used Actionable Metrics More training? Or potential best practice example? Training By WIIFM, not just topic/feature Reevaluate and start over if necessary
- 10. Best Practices for User Adoption, cont’d Feedback Loop Surveys Face-to-face Work with company culture Consider questions like… What are your biggest complaints… What else is preventing you… What would increase the value for you … What other thoughts do you have… Don’t ask until you are ready to act ! (then go for low hanging fruit first – fast and easy) Tool Tip: www.Surveymonkey.com low cost, easy-to-use, QUICK!
- 11. Dashboards – Adoption/Use Basics – logging in? creating opps? More Basics – When? At the right time? New features being used? How? Who? Where? Data Integrity and Freshness – Error free? Up to date?
- 12. Dashboards For Users Create Reports and Dashboards that filter and display info the way that type of user thinks and works…
- 14. Users hooked on Excel? Add custom field for Salesforce URL to link directly from Excel reports! 1. SETUP a Custom field of data type “Formula Field” 2. DOWNLOAD Report with the Opportunity URL field to Excel
- 15. Adoption Best Practices – Results (so far…) What were the results? Strong Adoption driving worldwide alignment and collaboration Huge change in perception from all user types Unprecedented visibility into sales pipeline 35% increase in users ≥ 1x a week 95% data error free (up from only 30% clean 18 months ago) 85% open opps updated last 90 days (up from only 25%) New revenue $$$ attributed to having Salesforce Users seeing vision that Salesforce may one day be called crack force at ADI
- 16. Steve Settelmayer VP, Sales & Marketing
- 17. All About Neff Rental, Inc. INDUSTRY : Construction Services EMPLOYEES : 1,100 GEOGRAPHY : 15 States primarily in the Sun Belt # USERS : 330 PRODUCT(S) USED : Salesforce SFA, 2 downloaded AppExchange applications, Integrated to ERP and 3 rd Party Lead Source Top ten US provider of construction equipment for professional contractors
- 18. Adoption Challenges Key challenges impacting adoption Sales reps were 100% pencil and paper No training department for a company of over 1,000 employees IT department not set up for development projects Five “independent” regions with VP level managers
- 19. Best Practices for User Adoption Establish the “Pre” Sales Early Know your audience Communicate strategy and set expectations People and Processes Recruit savvy subject matter experts Document and customize
- 20. Best Practices for User Adoption, cont’d Salesforce = Command Center Use for every phase of deployment “If it’s not in Salesforce…” Manage to the Application Focus on top reports Lead by example
- 21. Best Practices for User Adoption, cont’d Carrots and Sticks Contests, spiffs, etc. No access to resources unless… OR
- 22. Adoption Best Practices – Results What were the results? Inheritance Performance Plateau
- 23. Imagine it. Learn it. Use it. How to apply what you’ve learned when you get home You’re not alone… leverage best practices “Sponsorship” isn’t a once-in-a-lifetime event Have clear short-term objectives PLUS a long-term vision for prolonged adoption Communicate clear expectations, and have ways to measure and reward Keep a pulse on changing business needs Not happy with adoption? Time for a “do-over”
- 24. Imagine it. Learn it. Use it.
- 25. Imagine it. Learn it. Use it.
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- 27. Cheryl O’Connor Worldwide CRM Strategy Manager Steve Settelmayer VP, Sales & Marketing Susan Perdew, salesforce.com Customer Success Manager QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION
Editor's Notes
- #2: Welcome, everyone, to the Admin I session “Adoption: Get on the Right Track, Right Away”