What strategies have you found to be most effective in overcoming resistance to learning and adopting new technologies?

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Chief Technology Officer in Softwarea year ago

Showcasing some successful external case studies to the stakeholders. Also, if possible build some POCs internally and demonstrate just to win their trust.

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Director of Value Realization and COE Programs in Softwarea year ago

POCs are great, do you have a platform were you can do that?

CEO and co-founder in IT Servicesa year ago

People want to know what it means for them ... not for the company, the clients, the leadership but themselves ..
If you articulate and demonstrate that it is good news for their daily jobs or their LinkedIN profiles .. they will embrace the change and push fwd , even become a champion

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Director of Value Realization and COE Programs in Softwarea year ago

The "what's in it for me" extends past the personal benefits, I think. A lot of times people just don't understand the details well enough to know what they should do. That is why I am a big fan of providing users with guided help directly in the applications and in providing then with contextual content.

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