I recently had a conversation with Pam Dymoke, Functional Manager of the Financial Modules at Hennepin County about their Selective Adoption strategy.

Hennepin County is the largest of 87 counties in the State of Minnesota. With an annual budget over $1.9 Billion, it has more than 1 million residents in 45 cities, being supported by approximately 8,000 employees. In 2009, Hennepin County implemented PeopleSoft HCM/ELM and PeopleSoft Portal. In October of 2014 they began their journey of implementing PeopleSoft 9.2 FSCM, starting with Image 5. In October 2016, Hennepin upgraded their HCM/ELM to 9.2. They are currently on PeopleTools 8.54.18 and are on FSCM 9.2 Image 17, HCM 9.2 Image 16 and ELM 9.2 Image 12 for their applications.

Hennepin uses several modules in FSCM including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Contracts, Grants, Expenses, Project Costing, General Ledger, Billing, eSupplier Portal, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Contract Management, eProcurement, Purchasing, Treasury, and Cash Management. In HCM, they use Human Resources (including Position Mgmt), Benefits (base/eBenefits), Time and Labor, Payroll and ePerformance as well as eLearning (internal/external) within ELM.

While my conversation with Pam allowed me to gain a better understanding of Hennepin County’s Selective Adoption strategy, there are three key points from our talk that other organizations should consider as they define their Selective Adoption strategy:

• There is an initial learning curve.
• Don’t wait too long between Image updates.
• Utilize the full range of resources that are out there.

Learn more about adopting selective adoption.