About: nshatananda
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Bio: Noel enjoys collaborative environments and is driven by the challenges of a growing industry. He values putting client goals first, explaining, “When we enable clients to be the best they can be, the company automatically benefits; it’s simply the by-product of fully enabling passionate human beings.” Noel heads up the Delivery Team and is constantly working to strategically move fusionSpan forward toward its vision of bridging gaps through technology.
Posts by nshatananda:
When AI Agents Become Coworkers: What to Expect and How to Manage Them
Posted on: 10 Feb 2026
After years of working with nonprofits and associations on digital transformation, I’ve come to believe this: organizations that learn to work well with AI will outperform those that don’t. Not by reducing people, but by amplifying them.
How Associations Can Find AI Success by Building on For-Profit’s Mistakes
Posted on: 16 Jan 2026
The headline from MIT’s 2025 State of AI in Business researchis sobering: despite massive investment in generative AI, the vast majority of organizational pilots are not delivering measurable business value.
Step 12 of Your AMS Journey: We Are Live
Posted on: 01 Apr 2021
You are live, have gone through the go live challenges, and have worked on the other phases whereby the implementation project can be closed. What now?
Step 11 of Your AMS Journey: Going Live
Posted on: 18 Mar 2021
Your organization has put countless hours of work and research into your new AMS, and now it is time to introduce it to members and stakeholders.
Step 10 of Your AMS Journey: Go Live Prep
Posted on: 04 Mar 2021
The end of Your AMS Journey is in sight – you have undergone testing and training, and are now ready to prep for launch. In fact, preparing for go live is something the team has to keep in mind throughout the entire project. Here are some important items to consider..
Step 9 of Your AMS Journey: UAT & Training
Posted on: 18 Feb 2021
Your organization has been hard at work throughout the implementation and data conversion phases of the project. The team has made great progress, but all the activity has been predominantly conducted by the core project team working on perfecting individual modules of the overall project. The testing that has occurred so far is unit/module level testing. It’s time now to take the next step.
Step 8 of Your AMS Journey: Data Convert
Posted on: 05 Feb 2021
Data conversion, or data migration, is the task of bringing over relevant data from your legacy system to your new CRM. This is one of the most crucial steps for a successful AMS implementation. Bad data will result in a failed project, no matter how good the features are within your new platform.
Step 7 of Your AMS Journey: Implementation
Posted on: 21 Jan 2021
Well, it’s time to begin! In Your AMS Journey, Implementation is the execution phase of the whole endeavor. In Step 6 you defined the scope of your project, and the System Implementer (SI) will now begin to bring your vision to life.
Step 6 of Your AMS Journey: Define Scope
Posted on: 10 Dec 2020
With the discovery stage complete, you and your staff let out a sigh of relief. The team is happy the implementation is moving along, and members are eagerly anticipating all of the features they expect the new AMS will bring to make their lives easier.
Step 5 of Your AMS Journey: Discovery
Posted on: 25 Nov 2020
By this stage of Your AMS Journey, you have made all the crucial decisions regarding choosing a new product and implementation partner. With your platform and partner selected, now it is time to roll up your sleeves and get to work. To begin, you will engage in a discovery.