Salesforce Success: A Human-Centric Best Practice Checklist

Salesforce

Unlock the full potential of Salesforce and create exceptional digital experiences by prioritizing your people and following these best practices:

  1. Engage Deeply with Employees and Customers:
    • Conduct discovery workshops and sentiment analysis to understand their needs and challenges.
    • Build solutions that address real problems and enhance user experiences.
  2. Analyze Your Internal Processes:
    • Gain clarity on desired outcomes before replicating processes digitally.
    • Analyze workflows and user journeys to guide technology implementation.
    • Consider a health check to optimize your existing Salesforce setup.
  3. Use a Human-Centred Change Management Plan:
    • Prioritize people in your change management plan to ensure seamless adoption.
    • Utilize discovery and sentiment analysis findings to guide the change journey.
  4. Ensure Executive Alignment:
    • Align project goals with organizational objectives from the start.
    • Achieve clear understanding, timely decision-making, improved communication, better resource allocation, and increased accountability.
  5. Establish an Effective Action Plan:
    • Identify phases, benefits, risks, and dependencies.
    • Assign a project owner and create a responsibility matrix.
  6. Make Sure You Have the Right Talent in Place:
    • Support internal Salesforce staff with a managed services provider.
    • Free up employees for innovation and value-add tasks, preventing burnout.
  7. Organize Your Wishlist Items in Order of Priority:
    • Focus on high-value items and quick wins first.
    • Achieve tangible results early on to build momentum and excitement.
  8. Test Everything, Optimize and Evolve:
    • Thoroughly test all implementations for optimal performance.
    • Leverage data to understand user interactions and continuously improve experiences.

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