Implementing an association management solution (AMS) is the project that has the potential to have most impact—positive or negative–on your organization’s activities. The implementation impacts all levels of your association, including business units, employees, executives and, ultimately, your members.
Success means that your employees and other stakeholders can heave a sigh of relief and continue working towards achieving the association’s objectives, while failure can result in disruption of daily business operations and negatively impact relations with members, prospects and partners. As such, it’s essential that you pull out all stops to ensure that the deployment goes right.
Before you go live with your brand new AMS, take time to plan ahead and focus on those essentials that can ensure the success of the AMS deployment project. Let’s take a look at seven steps that are critical to the success of your AMS go-live.