Monitoring Change Effort Progress - IT Solutions

In July, Elizabeth and I asked for some advice of a few of our associates. We wanted some feedback on our Roadshow ideas, but we got more than expected (see our blog entry on July 17. 2010). Simply put, it was to enter the new age of e-commerce with a high priority. Our intent was to "come of age" as a business with a drastically modified Internet presence. We knew a bit, but not nearly enough. It seemed that the first step was to decide what media we would use, do some "get started" research and begin to experiment. We bought Dummies books for the most popular services and signed up.

Twitter - LinkedIn - Facebook - YouTube - our two web sites (ltodi and qualityofworklife) and this Blog, all up and running to some degree. None to the depth and breadth we had in mind at the beginning. But we keep making small progress.

These are fragments on a half dozen services of our early entry into this new form of doing business. It's been hard at best to break the mold of doing business as usual - the good old fashion way. But we've started and learned a bit. There have been a half dozen attempts to set up a monitoring system that would allow us to keep track of our progress. Thus far, we've not achieved what we set out to accomplish - and it appears to be more complex than originally conceived. Old habits die hard, new habits form with difficulty. It has been a labor of some frustration to be sure but we see glimmers of success that have helped us learn what to do differently.