Trent Parkhill has more than 30 years of engineering and IT experience and consults with organizations in the engineering and professional services market on best practices in enterprise search 2.0.
A former engineering consultant and Director of IT, Parkhill was named to InfoWorld’s CTO 25, the publication’s annual list of senior IT executives who demonstrate leadership within their companies and the IT community. For the past 25 years, Parkhill has managed information systems development in a variety of positions at Haley & Aldrich (H&A), a leading science and engineering firm.
Maximizing adoption requires understanding the motivations of different groups of users and tailoring your deployment messages and materials to address their perspectives. Technology adoption guru Geoffrey Moore suggests that the…
Maximizing technology adoption requires understanding the motivations of different groups of users and tailoring your deployment messages and materials to address their perspectives. So what are these different groups of…
The third impediment to technology adoption is that adoption is hindered when the new system does not address an important need or the initial implementation is not sufficiently tailored to…
In my last blog post, I mentioned that by analyzing our past projects, we can improve adoption of our future information systems projects. This post will focus on the second…
I just read an excellent article by Michael Healey at InformationWeek titled, “Go Rogue with Enterprise Search.” In this article, Michael makes the point that a relatively small percentage of…
In my last blog post, I suggested that by analyzing our past projects, we can improve adoption of our future information systems (IS) projects. Three of my adoption observations are…
In my last blog post, I suggested that many of our past information systems solutions did not fully achieve our hopes or the claims we made when we proposed these…
Welcome to my first Coveo blog post. My name is Trent Parkhill, and while I have been configuring Coveo’s enterprise search platform for the past four years, I only recently…
