by Eric Kimberling | Feb 19, 2020 | Digital Strategy, ERP Failures, SAP failures
It seems that ERP failures are becoming increasingly common in recent months and years. Lidl, Haribo, and Revlon are some of the more recent ones. Many of us still remember historic ERP nightmares such as Hershey’s, Nike, the US Department of Defense, and other...
by Eric Kimberling | Feb 12, 2020 | Digital Strategy, ERP software selection
The big, integrated, traditional, and monolithic ERP systems are good for some, but not all. ERP vendors will typically push the big integrated systems like SAP S/4HANA, Oracle ERP Cloud, Microsoft Dynamics, and other leading ERP systems. Best of breed providers, on...
by Eric Kimberling | Feb 10, 2020 | Cloud ERP Implementations, ERP Implementations, Global ERP Implementations, HCM Implementations, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Implementations, NetSuite Implementations, Oracle Cloud ERP Implementations, SAP S/4HANA Implementations, SuccessFactors Implementations, Workday Implementations
ERP failures and pitfalls are not due to chance. Like a car that runs off the roadway, common challenges result from not having the proper guardrails in place. Organizations and teams often think that hiring a strong project manager or one of the big ERP systems...
by Eric Kimberling | Feb 5, 2020 | Cloud ERP Implementations, Digital Strategy, ERP Implementations, Global ERP Implementations, HCM Implementations, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Implementations, NetSuite Implementations, Oracle Cloud ERP Implementations, SAP S/4HANA Implementations, SuccessFactors Implementations, Workday Implementations
ERP and HCM implementations often take longer than expected. In fact, this happens more often than most in the industry would like to admit. The fact of the matter is that change is hard, and the difficulty of change involved in any ERP or HCM implementation takes...
by Eric Kimberling | Jan 27, 2020 | Digital Strategy, Organizational Change Management
Traditional change management strategies for ERP and HCM implementations fail more than often than not. Ineffective change strategies too often focus on training, communications, and activities that don’t enable real change. Worse yet, many organizations...
