Crowe Digital: “Coffee with Ian Gotts” Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 4 November 2020 Categories In Article Ian Gotts, Founder and CEO of Elements.Cloud joins Crowe Business Solutions Partner, Grant Anthony to discuss his career journey as an entrepreneur and his experience moving to and setting up a business in the USA. Below is the video, but Ian was also inteviewed for their “5 mins” segment which is a written Q&A which…
Lou Fox, ex-CTO BlueWolf, joins Advisory Board Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 4 November 2020 Categories In Career We are delighted to welcome Lou Fox to the Elements.cloud Advisory Board. Lou was the CTO of Bluewolf for 16 years. BlueWolf was the first and top Salesforce consulting company. Lou built Bluewolf Beyond, a Gartner Magic Quadrant consulting practice, which was a major factor in Bluewolf’s consistent growth and eventual acquisition by IBM. Ian…
The true cost of poor user adoption Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 1 November 2020 Categories In Change Intelligence, Documentation, User Adoption The cost of poor adoption Have you ever stopped and thought of the dollar cost of poor user adoption? We’ve put together a quick calculator that puts that wasted time in terms of salary cost. Simple errors completing fields because it is not clear what to enter: These not only take time to correct but…
Do you have leading or lagging metrics? Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 1 November 2020 Categories In Business Analysis, Process Mapping A driving analogy Think about driving alongside a pavement crowded with shoppers. A pedestrian steps out and thanks to your lightning reactions and the ABS on your car you manage to avoid hitting them. So ‘agility’ is whether you are able to respond if something jumps out in front of you. The measure is “did you…
15 Winning AppExchange Apps chosen by Salesforce customers Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 31 October 2020 Categories In Article Amanda Nelson, Senior Director, Community Marketing at Salesforce asked customers for their top Appexchange Apps. Elements.cloud was listed in the top 15 alongside Conga, Docusign, and Salesforce Pardot. Amanda Nelson: “Who is winning 2020? Our pets because they see us more. Slippers over dress shoes. Online shopping. No travel expenses. Not commuting. But another opportunity…
The hidden cost of free Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 30 October 2020 Categories In Career ROI Calculator You just know that Elements will make your life easier, but that is not really good enough. Your boss needs a business case and then you need to find some budget. So you need a clear understanding of the ROI – the costs and the benefits. But we can only afford free Rarely…
Poor scope control. #1 serial killer of projects Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 29 October 2020 Categories In Implementation This in an excerpt from the free ebook “Analysis, Automation and Adoption for #AwesomeAdmins”(44 pages of valuable content — not 6 pages of marketing fluff). It is written with Salesforce implementations in mind, but it is equally applicable to any other systems implementation; MSDynamics, SAP, Workday, Oracle etc or in fact any change initiative. https://elements.cloud/ebook-analysis/…
Invited on a private jet? Here is the etiquette Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 29 October 2020 Categories In Career No one wants to risk travelling on airlines at the moment. So the obvious approach is to find a friend with a private jet (and a private island). But what do you do – or not do? What is the correct etiquette? Here are a few pointers according to PJ (private jet) owners magazine: 1.…
Supercharging DevOps: Elements.cloud + Copado Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 28 October 2020 Categories In DevOps, Webinar Andrew Davis – Director of Product Management at Copado and Ian Gotts – CEO of Elements.cloud – discuss how to accelerate DevOps and show the tight integration between Copado and Elements.cloud
