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Holland & Davis, LLC
Dutch Holland
713-877-8130
GeoQuest Schlumberger
Susan Ganz
713-513-2480
December 17, 2000
Schlumberger Division GeoQuest Selects Holland & Davis
to Provide Organizational Alignment Services During Technology
Implementations
Houston - The North American division of GeoQuest has chosen
Holland & Davis, LLC as a preferred partner to provide organizational
alignment services in conjunction with implementations of GeoQuest's
major U.S. exploration and production data and information management
solutions.
"Our goal in any implementation is for our clients to
get the full business value from their investment in GeoQuest's
solutions," said Larry Gutman, vice president of U.S. Operations
for GeoQuest. "We recognize that there are many important
elements of a successful implementation beyond getting the technology
itself up and running. We all know that people using new software
will need appropriate training, but there's a bigger picture
to consider. The new technology will frequently function differently,
making things possible that were not possible before, enabling
people to do work in new, more productive ways…and to do
more value-adding work. The organizational alignment skills
of Holland & Davis will help our clients realize this value."
Some of the key competencies that Holland & Davis makes
available to GeoQuest's clients' include:
- planning and delivering clear communications to the entire
organization concerning the business reasons for making the
change
- establishing a sense of urgency to each community of affected
stakeholders
- helping redesign work processes to better 'fit' with the
way the new technology works
- redesigning job roles and performance management systems
- helping individual employees to understand what changes
are needed from them and clarifying the new performance standards
- integration of all actions required for the technology implementation,
user preparation, and any other change initiatives into clear
action plans for each level of client management.
Bill Nash, President of Holland & Davis, notes, "Over
the years, we've seen companies underestimate or minimize their
efforts in this area. It takes two or three times longer—and
substantially more effort—to get the anticipated results,
and those results are often sub-optimized. We've been called
on to help companies in this situation retrofit, organizationally
speaking, their technology implementations. Anyone who has been
there/done that can tell you they don't want to repeat the experience.
That's why we are so pleased that an outstanding technology
and solutions supplier such as GeoQuest appreciates this vital
piece of a technology implementation. Our firm looks forward
to working with GeoQuest's technical team and client teams to
help GeoQuest customers gain full benefit from their investments."
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