Your entire customer success team – support, education services, and professional services – can contribute to your performance support solution to gain higher rates of user adoption, create happier customers and add more revenue to your business.
2. Source: Thalheimer, W. (2006, February). Spacing Learning Events Over Time: What the Research Says
“40% of executives worry that their organizations will not keep pace with
technology change and lose their competitive edge” –McKinsey study, 2013
Project Sustainment
Quantifiable value of
increasing and maintaining
user adoption throughout the
software life cycle
Forgetting
Curve
Learning
Curve
User
Application
Proficiency
Time
The Value of User Proficiency & Adoption is Real
3. Rising Complexity Thwarts Adoption,
Creating a Consumption Gap
• Consumption gap
leads to:
– Slower product
consumption, slower
repurchase
– Lower renewal rates
with higher discounts
– Reduced satisfaction
and loyalty scores
Time
Value
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Source: TSIA
4. 0
25
50
75
100
Organizational Capability: Essential Over
the Long Term
Skill wanes
• People move
• Processes change
• Technology
changes
• New hires know
“less”
Impact is dramatic
• Between 10–30%
capability per year
Team Skill
Source: IDC, The Silent Killer: Knowledge Leakage and the Impact on Technical Skills, 2012
Replacement workers trained to 60%
91
71
53
41
78
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Team skill @ 30% leakage
Team skill @ 10% leakage
Goal — 100%
By year 6 —
it has only 24%
Year 3 —
organization has 41%
of its original capability
Knowledge Leakage:
Skills degrade over time
Year 3 Year 6Year 1
5
6. Understanding
Proficiency
Adoption
Provide knowledge
at moments of need
to build to user
proficiency
Culmination of
knowledge and skills
that lead to
functional use of the
application
Reaching the level
of mastery that
maximizes user
effectiveness of the
application in
completing the job
Time to software adoption directly impacts return on technology investment
User Success
Return on
Technology
Investment
(RTI)
Enable Understanding to climb the
Adoption Realization Curve (ARC)
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7. Adoptors
Retainers
Expanders
Monitor and
improve product
adoption/
consumption by
customers
40% of TSIA members
target adoption
Ensuring
customers renew
relationships and
agreements with
your company
37% of TSIA members
target retention
Expand selling
opportunities, i.e.,
upsell/cross-sell
10% of TSIA members
target expand selling
The Journey to Customer Success
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Source: TSIA
9. Your customers
are struggling
• Compressed roll out schedules
• Constant technology upgrades
• Chasing ROI and reducing TCO
• Changing learning styles and preferences
• Reduced training budgets
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Understanding
Proficiency
Adoption
10. Managing an upgrade:
18,000 employees
5 continents
24 time zones
7000 stakeholders
14,000 assignment groups
33 integrations & simultaneous deployment
Real Situations
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11. Failed platform rollout:
“We did not have cohesive and thorough
communication to the users about the
changes that were coming. Nor did we have a
standard way to train them.”
Real Situations
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12. Enterprise application rollout with mission critical
implications:
Primary issue …. the lack of time
in their daily schedule for training. Past initiatives had included
one-on-one training which proved to be time consuming and
expensive. In addition, development of curriculum tended to be
slow and difficult to maintain.
Real Situations
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13. Your Challenges
• Customer expectations for ROI achievement
• Securing high renewal rates – avoiding
shelfware
• Compressed delivery schedules
• Users do not want to sit in classrooms
• Differentiating your products
• “Training” is transitioning to guidance
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Understanding
Proficiency
Adoption
14. User Adoption – The Key to Success
Your Customer’s Bottom Line = Your Bottom Line
People are the key to success of any software rollout
• Workers (employees, partners, contractors, constituents) execute the
processes that run the business.
• Workers rely on their business applications to facilitate their work.
• Worker success drives organizational success.
Your success is based on enabling worker proficiency which leads
to higher adoption of your software by delivering
• Effective, relevant, and engaging content.
• Customized, personalized, and context-sensitive assistance
• Continuous access to relevant content from across your organization.
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16. Take A Comprehensive Approach
Each team is
collectively
responsible for
creating and
maintaining
customer-facing
content that is
critical for user
proficiency and user
adoption.
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17. Scenarios – Delivering Success
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“…an absolutely
phenomenal enabling tool,
which cut our training
costs by 90% and upped
our adoption from the
typical 40% for new
applications to 95%. 6500
people trained, less than
200 service calls and less
than 1/3rd of those were
training related.”
“Huge Increase in
Performance. No need for a
training environment -
people learned by show
me/try me (simulations).”
Managing an
upgrade:
18,000 employees
24 time zones,
7000 stakeholders
5 continents,
14,000
assignment
groups
33 integrations
and simultaneous
deployment.
Created
performance
support materials
available on
demand, within the
application and in
formats that fit the
learning styles of
users.
18. “250 Hands-on scenario
based exercises and
performance support
documents were paramount
in our go live success since
they were readily available
and very thorough. End
users were able to utilize
these (documents) without
having a trainer constantly
helping them through the
steps involved in their
processes.”
Failed Go Live:
“We did not
have cohesive
and thorough
communication
to the users
about the
changes that
were coming.
Nor did we have
a standard way
to train them.”
Modernized
training material
and shifted the way
training was
delivered. Instead
of sending trainers
onsite, trained
business process
owners who then
trained other
employees.
Scenarios – Delivering Success
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Scenarios – Delivering Success
1919
19. “In less than 10 weeks,
• Completed more than 10,000
training events and all our
physicians were ready to use
the new software upon
implementation.
• Consultant/ trainer needs
were reduced by 33% as
uPerform allowed for a rapid
deployment of custom
content that eliminated the
one-on-one training model.
• Moved from our go-live
adoption to optimization
much quicker than expected
which sped up our
implementation process and
lowered our operating
costs.”
Enterprise
application
rollout with
mission critical
implications:
Primary issue … lack
of time in their daily
schedule for training.
One-on-one training
was time consuming
and expensive.
Development of
curriculum was slow
and difficult to
maintain.
Customized
training
materials
accessed on-
demand, either
on-site or
remotely via
mobile devices,
by physicians.
“We were able
to centralize our
training and
track the
progress of
each of our 850
physicians.”
Scenarios – Delivering Success
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21. Source: Thalheimer, W. (2006, February). Spacing Learning Events Over Time: What the Research Says
Project Sustainment
Quantifiable
value of user
adoption
Forgetting
Curve
Learning
Curve
User
Application
Proficiency
Time
The Value of User Proficiency & Adoption is Real
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Skills wane over time:
• People move
• Processes change
• Technology change
• New hires know ‘less”
• Impact is dramatic
(76% skill reduction
by year 3)
22. • Reduction of authoring time
by more than 50%
• Reduction of in-classroom
training (from 70% to 30%)
resulting in increased
employee productivity and
reduced travel costs
• Increased speed of finding
information resulting in
employee efficiency gain of
16%
• The average time to
proficiency was reduced by
21%-38%
• Reduced help desk calls by
roughly 25%
Key Benefits of
ANCILE Solutions
Sustainment Phase:
How much Value can be Realized?
23. Right Time
• Formal Training
• In-application
• Moment of Need
Right Content
• Effective
• Engaging
• Relevant
Right Format
• Fit for Function
• Personalized
• Multiple Modalities
Validated
• Communications
• Assessments
• Tracking/Reporting
Ensuring Adoption across the Entire Software
Application Lifecycle
Understanding
Proficiency
Adoption
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24. Adoption Fuels Revenue Growth
Grow
Revenue
& Profitability
Sales and Renewals
• New Market: Custom Help
Services for “Non-Expert”
End-Users
• Improve renewal rates
Development
• Guide New Product
Functionality (and Ensure
Usage)
Professional Services
• Custom Content
• Deeper Integrations
• Advanced Usage
Customer Support
• Reduce Support Calls
• Rapidly decrease time to
create Guidance Content
by SME
25. SAP Productivity Pak
HP ART
EMC
STaRT
BMC
ESA
OpenText
Personalized
Help
solutions
The world’s leading
software companies
drive user adoption
with ANCILE technology
27. Enable your customers to realize the full potential
of their technology investments by driving user
adoption across the entire software life cycle.
Partner with ANCILE to:
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Slide 8 shows you how we accomplish economic benefits of slide 7
Shade the areas of the curve between forgetting curve and the remembering curve (highlights value of adoption)
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The formula for adoption is understanding+proficiency+(reinforced) behavior=adoption
Functional: Increasing levels of proficiency directly leads organizations to increase level of software user adoption and realize the most of their technology investment
Behavioral: Driving the increased use of the application (behavioral change)
Global Bank: 18,000 employees and they managed to upgrade from 7.11 to 9.3 in 60 minutes across 24 time zones. Their project included 7000 stakeholders, 5 continents, 14,000 assignment groups, 33 integrations and simultaneous deployment. RBC has created specific ART content for different teams and roles
“ART is the #1 reason we were able to go live the way we did. ART is an absolutely phenomenal enabling tool, which cut our training costs by 90% and upped our adoption from the typical RBC for new applications of 40% to 95%. 6500 people trained, less than 200 service calls and less than 1/3rd of those were training related. Results = Huge Increase in Performance.” No need for a training environment - people learned by show me/try me , Also used for training in advance of UAT, 6500 people trained, less than 200 service calls and less than 1/3rd of those were training related.
Columbia Sportswear: rolled out a new SAP platform in their Canadian subsidiary. Unfortunately, the rollout did not go as planned, according to Myra Lavenue, Columbia Sportswear’s Organization Change Management Training Lead. “We did not have cohesive and thorough communication to the users about the changes that were coming. Nor did we have a standard way to train them.” 250 Hands-on scenario based exercises - The uPerform documents that were created were paramount in our go live success since they were readily available and very thorough. End users were able to utilize these (documents) without having a trainer constantly helping them through the steps involved in their processes,”
Infirmary Health: “In less than 10 weeks, we completed more than 10,000 training events and all our physicians were ready to use the new software upon implementation.” Goal would require that over 850 physicians and supporting mid-level providers be trained quickly and comprehensively. One of the primary issues effecting the education of physicians is the lack of time the average physician has in their daily schedule for activities such as training. Past education initiatives for physicians had included one-on-one training which proved to be timeconsuming and expensive. In addition, development of curriculum tended to be slow and difficult to maintain. the training environment should be able to be accessed on-demand, either on-site or remotely, by the physician population. RESULTS: “We were able to centralize our training and track the progress of each of our 850 physicians,” said Zarr. “We moved from our go-live adoption to optimization much quicker than expected which sped up our implementation process and lowered our operating costs.” In a span of eight weeks, over 850 physicians and more than 500 support staff were fully trained in the EPIC software which allowed for a seamless software rollout in March 2014. Infirmary Health’s consultant/ trainer needs were reduced by 33 percent as uPerform allowed for a rapid deployment of custom content that eliminated the one-on-one training model. “In less than 10 weeks, we completed more than 10,000 training events and all our physicians were ready to use the new software upon implementation,”
How do we get there?
Provide the platforms and content for the future learner while simultaneously making current learning more effective
User Adoption goes far beyond classroom training or any one team
Global Bank with 18,000 employees and they managed to upgrade from 7.11 to 9.3 in 60 minutes across 24 time zones. Their project included 7000 stakeholders, 5 continents, 14,000 assignment groups, 33 integrations and simultaneous deployment. RBC has created specific ART content for different teams and roles
“ART is the #1 reason we were able to go live the way we did. ART is an absolutely phenomenal enabling tool, which cut our training costs by 90% and upped our adoption from the typical RBC for new applications of 40% to 95%. 6500 people trained, less than 200 service calls and less than 1/3rd of those were training related. Results = Huge Increase in Performance.” No need for a training environment - people learned by show me/try me , Also used for training in advance of UAT, 6500 people trained, less than 200 service calls and less than 1/3rd of those were training related.
Columbia Sportswear: rolled out a new SAP platform in their Canadian subsidiary. Unfortunately, the rollout did not go as planned, according to Myra Lavenue, Columbia Sportswear’s Organization Change Management Training Lead. “We did not have cohesive and thorough communication to the users about the changes that were coming. Nor did we have a standard way to train them.” 250 Hands-on scenario based exercises - The uPerform documents that were created were paramount in our go live success since they were readily available and very thorough. End users were able to utilize these (documents) without having a trainer constantly helping them through the steps involved in their processes. This new approach prepared trainers to successfully guide end users through the learning process; fostered organizational commitment and buy-in; and established a global super user network to embed departmental expertise.
Enterprise application rollout to physicians with mission critical implications: Primary issue effecting the education of physicians is the lack of time the average physician has in their daily schedule for training. Past education initiatives had included one-on-one training which proved to be time consuming and expensive. In addition, development of curriculum tended to be slow and difficult to maintain.
Infirmary Health: “In less than 10 weeks, we completed more than 10,000 training events and all our physicians were ready to use the new software upon implementation.” Goal would require that over 850 physicians and supporting mid-level providers be trained quickly and comprehensively. One of the primary issues effecting the education of physicians is the lack of time the average physician has in their daily schedule for activities such as training. Past education initiatives for physicians had included one-on-one training which proved to be timeconsuming and expensive. In addition, development of curriculum tended to be slow and difficult to maintain. the training environment should be able to be accessed on-demand, either on-site or remotely, by the physician population. RESULTS: “We were able to centralize our training and track the progress of each of our 850 physicians,” said Zarr. “We moved from our go-live adoption to optimization much quicker than expected which sped up our implementation process and lowered our operating costs.” In a span of eight weeks, over 850 physicians and more than 500 support staff were fully trained in the EPIC software which allowed for a seamless software rollout in March 2014. Infirmary Health’s consultant/ trainer needs were reduced by 33 percent as uPerform allowed for a rapid deployment of custom content that eliminated the one-on-one training model. “In less than 10 weeks, we completed more than 10,000 training events and all our physicians were ready to use the new software upon implementation,”
Slide 8 shows you how we accomplish economic benefits of slide 7
Shade the areas of the curve between forgetting curve and the remembering curve (highlights value of adoption)
Between proficiency and adoption I think we need the “how” – how do we make the leap from proficiency to adoption? I think it’s behavior. I think the formula for adoption is understanding+proficiency+(reinforced) behavior=adoption
Functional: Increasing levels of proficiency directly leads organizations to increase level of software user adoption and realize the most of their technology investment
Behavioral: Driving the increased use of the application (behavioral change)
Adoption is the holy grail of all software companies, because it is the one critical measurement of how much value your customers are getting out of the money they invested in your company.
Sales And Renewals
At the start of the business relationship, you have sales revenue. We know that adoption is a driver for sales, because us sales people do this all the time: Sell a small project as a pilot… and upon success of that pilot, expand that project into other areas of the company. That’s almost inherent in the model. As your customers use your product more, they will:
Keep buying your products (and paying subscription & renewal fees)
But we’re also seeing a large trend that our business partners are now able to provide. Most help services are for “experts”… the 5% of the user population that become super-users. Training, classes, content is targeted towards them. But there’s a big gap in the remaining 95% of your users… the ones that aren’t experts. The ones that don’t need to go to a week-long boot camp to learn everything there is to know about the product. They just need to know enough to do their job, and play their part in the organization.
With Ancile, we have a way of delivering that. Getting those just-in-time help services to those 95% of your users that currently aren’t major customers or consumers of your education and help services. Ancile allows you to offer that group of people something relevant and valuable to them. And we’re seeing that the customers out there are willing to pay for it.
Professional Services
… and creation of that custom help content becomes a new type of Professional Services project. We’re going into a lot of new international markets with exactly the value proposition of leading with Professional Services to create that system that can deliver custom just-in-time help for those 95% of end-users.
We also see customers want to start using your technology to integrate and connect with other technologies (integration),
Make it customized to fit better in their environment, or have it solve some of the more complex functions that require deeper tie-ins with their organization (advanced usage)
Development
They start to get a great sense of the benefits and shortcomings of your tools… often much more than any single person in your company knows.
And as such, their feedback becomes highly valuable in guiding future product development. You know what features your most engaged customers want.
And that those enhancements will have an impact on both them, and other customers out there. Because that deep inherent understanding of your tool exists with customers that have a deep understanding and adoption of your tool in the field.
Customer Support
And as they know the product better, they actually call Customer Support less. Because they learn the ins-and-outs of your tool, and they know what they can and cannot do with it.
We actually have a study we commissioned with Hobson (an external analyst group) that showed a direct correlation between Ancile’s product, and reducing Support call volume for an SAP implementation by about 25% after a 1-year period.
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We provide software solutions that empower people to improve corporate performance.
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We are the global leader in enterprise learning and corporate communications solutions that drive organizational performance.
HQ in the Baltimore USA with personnel in 11 countries and offices in the U.K., Germany, Japan, Singapore, and Australia.
We develop and support learning and performance solutions which increase employee productivity and proficiency.
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