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How Better Change Management Could Have Saved the Boeing 737 MAX

by Bob Blanchette | Aug 16, 2019 | Digital Strategy, Organizational Change Management

Organizational Change Management (OCM) is not a one size fits all concept, but I couldn’t’ help from wondering if it could have made a difference with the major issues Boeing is encountering with its 737 MAX airliners. Boeing’s problems center around a...

Why Do ERP Implementations Really Fail?

by Eric Kimberling | Aug 14, 2019 | Cloud ERP Implementations, ERP Failures, ERP Implementations, HCM Implementations, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Implementations, NetSuite Implementations, Oracle Cloud ERP Implementations, Oracle ERP Cloud Failures, SAP failures, SAP S/4HANA Implementations, SuccessFactors Implementations, Workday Implementations

I have spent the better part of 20 years trying to help clients crack the code on why ERP implementations fail. It first started to click 12 years ago when I was engaged for my first ERP expert witness engagement for one of the highest profile lawsuits...

How to Minimize ERP Implementation Costs

by Michael Huang | Aug 13, 2019 | Cloud ERP Implementations, ERP Implementations, HCM Implementations, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Implementations, NetSuite Implementations, Oracle Cloud ERP Implementations, SAP S/4HANA Implementations, SuccessFactors Implementations, Workday Implementations

Organizational Change Management (OCM) is not a one size fits all concept, but I couldn’t’ help from wondering if it could have made a difference with the major issues Boeing is encountering with its 737 MAX airliners. Boeing’s problems center around a...

How to Stay Educated on Changing Digital Technologies

by Brian Potts | Aug 12, 2019 | Digital Strategy

I have spent the better part of 20 years trying to help clients crack the code on why ERP implementations fail. It first started to click 12 years ago when I was engaged for my first ERP expert witness engagement for one of the highest profile lawsuits...

Welcome to the Machine of Digital Transformation

by Eric Kimberling | Aug 7, 2019 | Cloud ERP Implementations, Digital Strategy, ERP Implementations, HCM Implementations, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Implementations, NetSuite Implementations, Oracle Cloud ERP Implementations, SAP S/4HANA Implementations, SuccessFactors Implementations, Workday Implementations

ERP implementations are not known to be the cheapest things an organization can invest in to improve their business. That being said, enterprise software is considered to be an essential asset for manufacturers, distributors, and other business leaders....

Agile + ERP Implementations: Why It’s a Terrible Idea

by Eric Kimberling | Aug 1, 2019 | Digital Strategy, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Implementations, Oracle Cloud ERP Implementations, SAP S/4HANA Implementations

Trends in the ERP software space are a lot like politics. One minute a certain political party is firmly in control – then a few years later things change, and a new party is in control. With each shift comes hope and promise that the not-so-new answer...

There is No Such Thing as “ERP Failure”

by Brian Potts | Jul 30, 2019 | Digital Strategy, ERP Failures, Oracle ERP Cloud Failures

As Pink Floyd once said: “Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.” For all we know, they could have been talking about the future of digital transformation when they released the song 40 years ago. The dark side of digital transformation As a recovering...

IBM + Red Hat: What it Means to Cloud Digital Transformations

by Michael Huang | Jul 29, 2019 | Digital Strategy

Digital technology improves every single day, offering new functionality, advanced capabilities around automation and the ability to access and analyze endless amounts of data. Data forensics and what we learned about AI just a couple years ago is pretty...

SAP S/4HANA Change Management: How to Handle the People Side of Your Transformation

by Eric Kimberling | Jul 25, 2019 | Organizational Change Management, SAP S/4HANA Implementations

Organizational change is a key component of any SAP S/4HANA transformation or implementation of any of the top ERP systems. But too often, organizations limit their scope of change to myopically focus on end-user training. When we are close to the...

Signs of an Underperforming ERP Project Manager

by Brian Potts | Jul 23, 2019 | ERP Implementations, HCM Implementations, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Implementations, NetSuite Implementations, Oracle Cloud ERP Implementations, SAP S/4HANA Implementations, SuccessFactors Implementations, Workday Implementations

When an ERP implementation starts heading south, everyone starts to point fingers in one direction or another, and usually it’s towards the vendor. Core teams march with torches and pitchforks screaming that the vendor is mismanaging their project and...