Overcoming Barriers to Digital Transformation

Our new research report based on in-depth interviews with Digital and HR executives,
with recommendations and strategies for overcoming common barriers

OUR NEW GUIDE TO DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Our research – derived from in-depth interviews with 25 Digital and HR executives, plus the latest organisational theory and our applied expertise – offers:

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Insights from executives leading the transformation

The 20 Attributes That Define Adaptive Organisations

A How-To guide for making change routine

Our Quantified Org Diagnostic Test for benchmarking your progress

LEAD AUTHORS

Christine Overby, CEO of Shift*Base Research

Christine has spent the last twenty years helping companies adopt digital technologies and new ways of working. Prior to running Shift*Base, she was Vice President at Forrester Research, where she led the turn-around of its community offering, which delivers an exclusive network of peers, analysts, and advisors to 1,500 IT and Business executives. Christine also launched Forrester Research’s Digital Marketing practice, growing it into a multi-million dollar business. She has consulted on digital experience for companies including BarclayCard, The Coca-Cola Company, IBM, Nestle Purina, Novartis, Orange, and Procter & Gamble, and understands the complexity of large organisations and how to change them.

Lee Bryant, Co-founder of Post*Shift

Lee Bryant is at the forefront of current thinking around the 21st Century firm. A globally renowned expert on social technologies, organisational structure and new ways of working, Lee is now the co-founder of Post*Shift – a consulting firm designing agile, distributed organisations. Lee’s background co-founding Headshift, which became a leading international social business consultancy, helped him pioneer new uses for social technology inside companies and organisations. Believing social networks, not bureaucracies, are the organising principle of the current era, Lee is passionate about exploring new forms of highly connected organisations.

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AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

AI labs started off by training their models on the public internet—Reddit threads, Wikipedia entries, digitized books. But they exhausted that — all of it — by late 2024, according to former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. And what’s more, it’s not super helpful for building "agentic" AI: models that can actually do work. But the hand-crafted work that was done during the daily operations of defunct companies like cielo24? That’s a sort of fossil fuel for AI agents. Turns out that if you’re shooting for AI competence in the workplace, you need examples of what doing the work actually looks like — a lot of them.

“Model companies are realizing the noise in the real-world environments is required to accurately test models,” said Ali Ansari, whose company micro1 sells a product to AI labs called “Roots,” a mock holding company where AI agents can practice their skills in tasks like financial services and managing complex calendars.

AI-POwered Knowledge Transfer

Knowledge and expertise are human. Yet used well, AI can assist people in acquiring knowledge, transfering expertise from experienced seniors to juniors, and developing true organizational intelligence.

The intent must be not just to capture and institutionalize knowledge, but to enable the flows of human to human knowledge that are at the heart of all expertise development and the foundation of a dynamic, flourishing organization.

Building an AI-Powered RPG – to Learn Enterprise AI Integration – JAVAPRO International

This article shares insights from my hackathon project “Runes of Reason” – an AI-powered RPG – and uses it to explain concepts for AI integration with Spring AI. Along the way, the game demonstrates how LLMs can fundamentally reshape our whole product design. The RPG is an entertaining project for learning, but many insights can be transferred to real-world enterprise software use cases (summarized in the “Lessons Learned” sections).

Adactio: Journal—Threat models

People talk about the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of large language models as though all tasks are comparable. But it strikes me that there are three broad categories of work that large language models are applied to:

Compression.
Transformation.
Expansion.

Could Microsoft Win The War For Enterprise AI? – JOSH BERSIN

As OpenAI and Anthropic talk about going public, everyone is fascinated. These two companies with battling CEOs make up the drama of today’s AI industry. And as more information comes out from their public offering, everyone is wondering how they will compete with each other. (Listen to my latest podcast on culture in AI companies.)

Well as the drama continues, I’d like to advance a different thesis.

While the enterprise market is filled with players (Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Oracle, Anthropic, OpenAI) and the consumer market may be dominated by Apple and others, the biggest winner of all could be Microsoft. Let me walk you through my thinking.

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padding:8px 12px; background-color:#f37c7b; font-size:13px; font-family:arial, sans-serif; color:#fff; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; -webkit-border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; border-radius:4px; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ ._error-inner._form_error { margin-bottom:5px; text-align:left; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ ._button-wrapper ._error-inner._form_error { position:static; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ ._error-inner._no_arrow { margin-bottom:10px; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ ._error-arrow { position:absolute; width:0; height:0; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ ._error-html { margin-bottom:10px; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> .pika-single { z-index:10000001 !important; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> @media all and (min-width:320px) and (max-width:667px) { ::-webkit-scrollbar { display:none; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ { margin:0; width:100%; min-width:100%; max-width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ * { -webkit-box-sizing:border-box; -moz-box-sizing:border-box; box-sizing:border-box; font-size:1em; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ ._form-content { margin:0; width:100%; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ ._form-inner { display:block; min-width:100%; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ ._form-title,#_form_40_ ._inline-style { margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-left:0; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ ._form-title { font-size:1.2em; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ ._form_element { margin:0 0 20px; padding:0; width:100%; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ ._form-element,#_form_40_ ._inline-style,#_form_40_ input[type="text"],#_form_40_ label,#_form_40_ p,#_form_40_ textarea:not(.g-recaptcha-response) { float:none; display:block; width:100%; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ ._row._checkbox-radio label { display:inline; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ ._row,#_form_40_ p,#_form_40_ label { margin-bottom:0.7em; width:100%; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ ._row input[type="checkbox"],#_form_40_ ._row input[type="radio"] { margin:0 !important; vertical-align:middle !important; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ ._row input[type="checkbox"] + span label { display:inline; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ ._row span label { margin:0 !important; width:initial !important; vertical-align:middle !important; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ ._form-image { max-width:100%; height:auto !important; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ input[type="text"] { padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px; font-size:16px; line-height:1.3em; -webkit-appearance:none; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ input[type="radio"],#_form_40_ input[type="checkbox"] { display:inline-block; width:1.3em; height:1.3em; font-size:1em; margin:0 0.3em 0 0; vertical-align:baseline; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ button[type="submit"] { padding:20px; font-size:1.5em; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ ._inline-style { margin:20px 0 0 !important; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ { position:relative; text-align:left; margin: auto 0; -webkit-box-sizing:border-box; -moz-box-sizing:border-box; box-sizing:border-box; *zoom:1; border:none; width: 100%; -moz-border-radius:0px !important; -webkit-border-radius:0px !important; border-radius:0px !important; color:#000; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ ._form-title { font-size:22px; line-height:22px; font-weight:600; margin-bottom:0; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_:before,#_form_40_:after { content:" "; display:table; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_:after { clear:both; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_._inline-style { width:auto; display:inline-block; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_._inline-style input[type="text"],#_form_40_._inline-style input[type="date"] { padding:10px 12px; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_._inline-style button._inline-style { position:relative; top:27px; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_._inline-style p { margin:0; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_._inline-style ._button-wrapper { position:relative; margin:27px 12.5px 0 20px; }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> #_form_40_ ._form-thank-you { position:relative; left:0; right:0; text-align:center; font-size:18px; color:#fff; margin-top:15px}<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> @media all and (min-width:320px) and (max-width:667px) { #_form_40_._inline-form._inline-style ._inline-style._button-wrapper { margin-top:20px !important; margin-left:0 !important; } }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> @media (max-width: 667px) and (min-width: 320px) {#_form_40_ button[type="submit"] { 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-->window.cfields = [];<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->window._show_thank_you = function(id, message, trackcmp_url) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var form = document.getElementById('_form_' + id + '_'), thank_you = form.querySelector('._form-thank-you');<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> form.querySelector('._form-content').style.display = 'none';<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> thank_you.innerHTML = message;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> thank_you.style.display = 'block';<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (typeof(trackcmp_url) != 'undefined' && trackcmp_url) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> // Site tracking URL to use after inline form submission.<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> _load_script(trackcmp_url);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (typeof window._form_callback !== 'undefined') window._form_callback(id);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->};<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->window._show_error = function(id, message, html) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var form = document.getElementById('_form_' + id + '_'), err = document.createElement('div'), button = form.querySelector('button'), old_error = form.querySelector('._form_error');<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (old_error) old_error.parentNode.removeChild(old_error);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> err.innerHTML = message;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> err.className = '_error-inner _form_error _no_arrow';<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var wrapper = document.createElement('div');<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> wrapper.className = '_form-inner';<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> wrapper.appendChild(err);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> button.parentNode.insertBefore(wrapper, button);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> document.querySelector('[id^="_form"][id$="_submit"]').disabled = false;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (html) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var div = document.createElement('div');<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> div.className = '_error-html';<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> div.innerHTML = html;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> err.appendChild(div);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->};<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->window._load_script = function(url, callback) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var head = document.querySelector('head'), script = document.createElement('script'), r = false;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> script.type = 'text/javascript';<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> script.charset = 'utf-8';<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> script.src = url;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (callback) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> script.onload = script.onreadystatechange = function() {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (!r && (!this.readyState || this.readyState == 'complete')) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> r = true;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> callback();<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> };<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> head.appendChild(script);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->};<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->(function() {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (window.location.search.search("excludeform") !== -1) return false;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var getCookie = function(name) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var match = document.cookie.match(new RegExp('(^|; )' + name + '=([^;]+)'));<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> return match ? match[2] : null;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var setCookie = function(name, value) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var now = new Date();<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var time = now.getTime();<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var expireTime = time + 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 365;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> now.setTime(expireTime);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> document.cookie = name + '=' + value + '; expires=' + now + ';path=/';<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var addEvent = function(element, event, func) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (element.addEventListener) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> element.addEventListener(event, func);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> } else {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var oldFunc = element['on' + event];<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> element['on' + event] = function() {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> oldFunc.apply(this, arguments);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> func.apply(this, arguments);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> };<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var _removed = false;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var form_to_submit = document.getElementById('_form_40_');<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var allInputs = form_to_submit.querySelectorAll('input, select, textarea'), tooltips = [], submitted = false;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var getUrlParam = function(name) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var regexStr = '[\?&]' + name + '=([^&#]*)';<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var results = new RegExp(regexStr, 'i').exec(window.location.href);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> return results != undefined ? decodeURIComponent(results[1]) : false;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> };<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> for (var i = 0; i < allInputs.length; i++) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var regexStr = "field\\[(\\d+)\\]";<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var results = new RegExp(regexStr).exec(allInputs[i].name);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (results != undefined) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> allInputs[i].dataset.name = window.cfields[results[1]];<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> } else {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> allInputs[i].dataset.name = allInputs[i].name;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var fieldVal = getUrlParam(allInputs[i].dataset.name);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (fieldVal) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (allInputs[i].type == "radio" || allInputs[i].type == "checkbox") {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (allInputs[i].value == fieldVal) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> allInputs[i].checked = true;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> } else {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> allInputs[i].value = fieldVal;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var remove_tooltips = function() {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> for (var i = 0; i < tooltips.length; i++) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> tooltips[i].tip.parentNode.removeChild(tooltips[i].tip);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> tooltips = [];<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> };<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var remove_tooltip = function(elem) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> for (var i = 0; i < tooltips.length; i++) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (tooltips[i].elem === elem) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> tooltips[i].tip.parentNode.removeChild(tooltips[i].tip);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> tooltips.splice(i, 1);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> return;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> };<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var create_tooltip = function(elem, text) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var tooltip = document.createElement('div'), arrow = document.createElement('div'), inner = document.createElement('div'), new_tooltip = {};<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (elem.type != 'radio' && elem.type != 'checkbox') {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> tooltip.className = '_error';<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> arrow.className = '_error-arrow';<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> inner.className = '_error-inner';<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> inner.innerHTML = text;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> tooltip.appendChild(arrow);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> tooltip.appendChild(inner);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> elem.parentNode.appendChild(tooltip);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> } else {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> tooltip.className = '_error-inner _no_arrow';<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> tooltip.innerHTML = text;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> elem.parentNode.insertBefore(tooltip, elem);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> new_tooltip.no_arrow = true;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> new_tooltip.tip = tooltip;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> new_tooltip.elem = elem;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> tooltips.push(new_tooltip);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> return new_tooltip;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> };<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var resize_tooltip = function(tooltip) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var rect = tooltip.elem.getBoundingClientRect();<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var doc = document.documentElement, scrollPosition = rect.top - ((window.pageYOffset || doc.scrollTop) - (doc.clientTop || 0));<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (scrollPosition < 40) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> tooltip.tip.className = tooltip.tip.className.replace(/ ?(_above|_below) ?/g, '') + ' _below';<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> } else {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> tooltip.tip.className = tooltip.tip.className.replace(/ ?(_above|_below) ?/g, '') + ' _above';<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> };<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var resize_tooltips = function() {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (_removed) return;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> for (var i = 0; i < tooltips.length; i++) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (!tooltips[i].no_arrow) resize_tooltip(tooltips[i]);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> };<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var validate_field = function(elem, remove) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var tooltip = null, value = elem.value, no_error = true;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> remove ? remove_tooltip(elem) : false;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (elem.type != 'checkbox') elem.className = elem.className.replace(/ ?_has_error ?/g, '');<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (elem.getAttribute('required') !== null) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (elem.type == 'radio' || (elem.type == 'checkbox' && /any/.test(elem.className))) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var elems = form_to_submit.elements[elem.name];<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (!(elems instanceof NodeList || elems instanceof HTMLCollection) || elems.length <= 1) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> no_error = elem.checked;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> else {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> no_error = false;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> for (var i = 0; i < elems.length; i++) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (elems[i].checked) no_error = true;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (!no_error) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> tooltip = create_tooltip(elem, "Please select an option.");<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> } else if (elem.type =='checkbox') {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var elems = form_to_submit.elements[elem.name], found = false, err = [];<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> no_error = true;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> for (var i = 0; i < elems.length; i++) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (elems[i].getAttribute('required') === null) continue;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (!found && elems[i] !== elem) return true;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> found = true;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> elems[i].className = elems[i].className.replace(/ ?_has_error ?/g, '');<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (!elems[i].checked) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> no_error = false;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> elems[i].className = elems[i].className + ' _has_error';<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> err.push("Checking %s is required".replace("%s", elems[i].value));<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (!no_error) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> tooltip = create_tooltip(elem, err.join('<br/>'));<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> } else if (elem.tagName == 'SELECT') {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var selected = true;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (elem.multiple) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> selected = false;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> for (var i = 0; i < elem.options.length; i++) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (elem.options[i].selected) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> selected = true;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> break;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> } else {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> for (var i = 0; i < elem.options.length; i++) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (elem.options[i].selected && !elem.options[i].value) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> selected = false;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (!selected) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> no_error = false;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> tooltip = create_tooltip(elem, "Please select an option.");<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> } else if (value === undefined || value === null || value === '') {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> elem.className = elem.className + ' _has_error';<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> no_error = false;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> tooltip = create_tooltip(elem, "This field is required.");<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (no_error && elem.name == 'email') {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (!value.match(/^[\+_a-z0-9-'&=]+(\.[\+_a-z0-9-']+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,})$/i)) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> elem.className = elem.className + ' _has_error';<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> no_error = false;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> tooltip = create_tooltip(elem, "Enter a valid email address.");<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (no_error && /date_field/.test(elem.className)) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (!value.match(/^\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d$/)) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> elem.className = elem.className + ' _has_error';<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> no_error = false;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> tooltip = create_tooltip(elem, "Enter a valid date.");<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> tooltip ? resize_tooltip(tooltip) : false;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> return no_error;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> };<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var needs_validate = function(el) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> return el.name == 'email' || el.getAttribute('required') !== null;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> };<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var validate_form = function(e) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var err = form_to_submit.querySelector('._form_error'), no_error = true;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (!submitted) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> submitted = true;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> for (var i = 0, len = allInputs.length; i < len; i++) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var input = allInputs[i];<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (needs_validate(input)) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (input.type == 'text') {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> addEvent(input, 'blur', function() {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> this.value = this.value.trim();<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> validate_field(this, true);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> });<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> addEvent(input, 'input', function() {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> validate_field(this, true);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> });<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> } else if (input.type == 'radio' || input.type == 'checkbox') {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> (function(el) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var radios = form_to_submit.elements[el.name];<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> for (var i = 0; i < radios.length; i++) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> addEvent(radios[i], 'click', function() {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> validate_field(el, true);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> });<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> })(input);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> } else if (input.tagName == 'SELECT') {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> addEvent(input, 'change', function() {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> validate_field(input, true);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> });<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> remove_tooltips();<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> for (var i = 0, len = allInputs.length; i < len; i++) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var elem = allInputs[i];<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (needs_validate(elem)) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (elem.tagName.toLowerCase() !== "select") {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> elem.value = elem.value.trim();<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> validate_field(elem) ? true : no_error = false;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (!no_error && e) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> e.preventDefault();<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> resize_tooltips();<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> return no_error;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> };<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> addEvent(window, 'resize', resize_tooltips);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> addEvent(window, 'scroll', resize_tooltips);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> window._old_serialize = null;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (typeof serialize !== 'undefined') window._old_serialize = window.serialize;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> _load_script("//d3rxaij56vjege.cloudfront.net/form-serialize/0.3/serialize.min.js", function() {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> window._form_serialize = window.serialize;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (window._old_serialize) window.serialize = window._old_serialize;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> });<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var form_submit = function(e) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> e.preventDefault();<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> if (validate_form()) {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> // use this trick to get the submit button & disable it using plain javascript<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> document.querySelector('[id^="_form"][id$="_submit"]').disabled = true;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var serialized = _form_serialize(document.getElementById('_form_40_'));<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> var err = form_to_submit.querySelector('._form_error');<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> err ? err.parentNode.removeChild(err) : false;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> _load_script('https://postshift.activehosted.com/proc.php?' + serialized + '&jsonp=true');<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> return false;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> };<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> addEvent(form_to_submit, 'submit', form_submit);<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->})();<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --></script>