Resistance to Resiliency: Striving for Technology Change Acceptance
Overview
Technology adoption often comes with resistance, but it's possible to transform this challenge into an opportunity for growth. This course explores the journey from resistance to resilience in embracing new technologies, focusing on overcoming barriers and ensuring successful implementation. Participants will examine cutting-edge audit technologies, including AI, data analytics, and automation, and learn how to align these innovations with both organizational and personal goals. Through case studies, insights into the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), and practical discussions, participants will gain the tools and strategies to foster acceptance, driving seamless integration of new technology into both individual tasks and team workflows.
Delivery Method: Individual webcast
CPE Credit: Information technology
Program Level: Overview
Highlights
- Yellowbook
- Accounting and Auditing
- Strategic Alignment Model
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
Accounting Professionals
Objectives
- Identify organizational needs for technology adoption using the Strategic Alignment Model (SAM) to ensure alignment between technological capabilities and business objectives
- Recall employee-specific roadblocks to technology usage, drawing on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to identify factors affecting internal user's acceptance and engagement
- Recognize the key components of the Diffusion of Innovation theory, including adopter categories and influencing factors, and explain their relevance in understanding customer or client responses to technological innovation
Preparation
None
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Peter Zender, Accounting & Auditing Training Facilitator, Galasso Learning Solutions
With extensive experience in auditing and technology, Peter serves as an Audit Training Facilitator at Galasso Learning Solutions. His expertise in auditing healthcare companies, employee benefit plans, and private companies with complex transactions has made him a key contributor to the development of technical accounting training programs.
Before joining GLS, Peter worked at a Big 4, specializing in auditing healthcare companies in both public and private sectors. He later transitioned to an Internal Audit role at a Fortune 500 company before returning to public accounting at a national firm, where he focused on audits involving business combinations, asset acquisitions, GAAP to IFRS conversions, and technology implementations.
Throughout his career, Peter worked closely with learning and development to design and facilitate training on both technical accounting and soft skills. He has experience designing, overseeing, and facilitating weeklong training programs and producing accounting podcasts eligible for CPE credit.
Non-Member Price $59.00
Member Price $39.00