running a pilot program

You can run a pilot in many ways, but the overall effect is to work out the kinks in the system before it is rolled out and to improve on the processes if they can be improved upon. This pilot process is also just to see if the process is good enough or if the people think that it will be effective enough to implement. When a pilot is ran it is usually ran with many of the upper manager so that the best minds in the company can pick apart the strategy so that when they tell their department to implement the system that it will go smooth. You can also run a pilot where you pull people from different parts of the organization that show good leadership and that people trust, understand and relate to. This will help the strategy get accepted faster and make the whole process easier. Running a pilot also checks to see if the implementation will be feasible to the whole organization. When you run a pilot everyone might love the new strategy but the strategy might not be in the best interest of the company at that point in time because it is too costly to implement and will tie up to much capital.