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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Anthropic and OpenAI had better hope more companies don’t follow the example of AT&T.
The telecommunications firm plans to keep its employees’ spending on Anthropic and OpenAI models flat in the coming years by using more open-source models such as Nvidia’s Nemotron, according to Mark Austin, an AT&T vice president. 

A minimum viable platform for enterprise AI agents | by Bogdan Dobrica | Aug, 2026 | Medium

I’ve been thinking lately about what happens when AI agents stop being something that a few people experiment with and become a normal way of doing work inside a company.

The user experience is already surprisingly good. I can ask Claude or ChatGPT to inspect something, write some code, search through documents or interact with other applications. With a little configuration, an agent can use Slack, GitHub, Jira or whatever else I happen to need.

The problems start when I want to treat this as infrastructure.

An operating model for enterprise AI agent reliability | Thoughtworks

Agentic AI is becoming the leading use case in enterprise AI adoption, and their reliability now decides whether that adoption succeeds. But these agents don’t always fail in obvious ways: an agent can generate valid SQL, complete a query successfully and return figures that appear reasonable while still misinterpreting the original request. 

 

Because enterprise AI agents cannot rely on evaluation alone, we propose a comprehensive operating model that guardrails reliability at every layer.

How Enterprise Ontologies Power Explainable AI: A Practical Architecture for Insurance and Financial Services | by Rajesh Kumar Gupta | Aug, 2026 | Medium

Enterprise AI initiatives often fail because business data lacks shared meaning across systems and departments. This article explains how enterprise ontologies, OWL reasoning, SHACL validation, and governed knowledge graphs create a trusted semantic foundation for AI, analytics, and cross-domain decision-making across insurance and financial services.

Enterprises winning with AI agents are limiting how much the agents can do alone | VentureBeat

For much of the past two years, the general belief in enterprise AI has been that more autonomy equals better performance. Build agents that can plan, decide, and act across multi-step workflows, and give them as much room to run as possible. That assumption is now being tested at scale, in real production environments — and in a lot of deployments it’s failing. The companies that end up benefiting from agentic AI won’t necessarily be the ones that have given their agents the most flexibility. They’re the ones who create AI agents with specific responsibilities and make sure they operate within clear rules.

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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>