It takes a number of years for most companies to synthesize and adopt to new ways of doing business. There are five stages that most organizations go through on their road to adoption.
Stage 1: Denial "we don't need this technology"
"This new way of doing business does not apply to us"
- Stage 2: Outsourcing - “we don’t have time to create and manage this technology”
- "The easiest solution is to outsource."
- Stage 3: PowerPoint “everyone in the company is referencing this technology in their PowerPoint slides”
- "We need to take responsibility for this new way of doing business, we just can't shuffle it off by outsourcing. It is in everyone's plans, we just have not started execution."
- Stage 4: Execution “my people are busy creating applications using this technology”
- We have allocated resources and those resources have responsibility and accountability.
- Stage 5: Integration with current business “ we use this technology in our day-to-day business”
- "This is just a standard procedure for how we do business"