Introducing It
A clock-in system is read as a statement about trust. The settings to decide first, and what to say.
Procedure
Putting it in
Measure before you announce. A deployment that opens with a week of refusals never recovers the goodwill, and the refusals were predictable.
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Choosing a Product
The questions that separate a clock-in app from a tracking product with a clock-in feature.
Procedure
How These Deployments Fail
The recurring failures, each visible in the first month, each with a specific correction.
Analysis
Where to Start
The first sixty days, in an order that produces working radii rather than a procurement.
Procedure
Feeding Payroll
The boundary where a punch becomes money. What crosses it, what must not, and the reconciliation nobody runs.
Procedure
The First Week
What to watch in the days after go-live, when problems are cheap to fix and impressions are being formed permanently.
Procedure
What Changes as You Grow
Arrangements that work at one site fail at twenty, and the transition points are predictable enough to plan for.
Analysis