Getting technology adoption right: finding that perfect fit
Technology is undeniably a key driver of business success. However, we have seen far too many cases where technology was adopted badly. At best this is a wasted opportunity, a waste of time and money, where value could have been created instead. At worst it stifles organisational progress, forces aspects of the organisations into the wrong patterns, or becomes a liability.
With over 50 years of combined experience as technology consultants across diverse industries, we will guide participants through patterns of successful and unsuccessful technology adoption. Through hands-on exercises and real-world examples, this workshop will equip leadership and teams with practical strategies to adopt technologies more confidently and effectively.

**How the workshop unfolds**
We will begin by inviting participants to share their experiences—both positive and negative—with technology adoption.

Next, we’ll present real-world examples of technology adoption gone right and wrong. These examples will include case studies at the organisational level, departmental productivity level, and decisions made by engineering teams regarding tech stacks or infrastructure.
From there, we’ll workshop best practices, risks, and challenges for technology adoption along two key dimensions:

1. Doing the Right Thing
- Ensuring that right problem is being solved, in light of organisational needs, strategy, and goals.
- Discussing what ‘value’ means and the importance of keeping users at the core.
- This is to address the frequent problem of organisations being blinded by the glamour of technology and either not having a problem to solve or solving the wrong problem.

2. “Doing It Right”
- Finding a good fit between what the organisation needs, can afford, and can support, ensuring solutions are both valuable and sustainable.
- Addressing build vs. buy decisions and considering the total cost of ownership.
- Exploring agile and lean implementation approaches to balance pace and scope, flexibility and scalability vs. over-optimisation, gold-plating, and unmanageable complexity.
Finally, we’ll revisit the initial shared experiences to see how the discussed practices and insights can address or validate the challenges raised at the start of the workshop.

**What participants will take away**
* Awareness of the importance of mindful technology adoption
* Understanding of the challenges and risks of technology adoption
* Strategies for successful technology adoption
* Real-world examples of successful and failed tech adoption.

This is a workshop. It would be useful to have participants seated so they can workshop in groups, as well as having an ability for participants to take and share notes (post-its and or white-boards). But we are flexible and can work with all sorts of set ups :)
There isn't really a max number of participants...