by Bob Blanchette | Feb 23, 2020 | Digital Strategy, ERP Failures, Executive Leadership in Digital Transformation, Oracle ERP Cloud Failures, SAP failures
Why is executive buy-in so darn hard and fraught with surprises? Well the answers are many, and in this blog, we’ll explore a few that you may not have considered. Executive buy-in is a subset of organizational change management (OCM) and more than just terminology....
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 | Nov 9, 2019 | ERP Failures, SAP failures, SAP S/4HANA Implementations
Just weeks after releasing our ranking of the top ERP failures of all-time, European-based fleet management company LeasePlan announced its massive SAP ERP failure. In this same announcement, the company also announced that it was taking a 100M Euro write-off and...
by Eric Kimberling | Oct 8, 2019 | digital transformation case studies, ERP Expert Witness, ERP Failures, Oracle Cloud ERP Implementations, Oracle ERP Cloud Expert Witness, Oracle ERP Cloud Failures, SAP Expert Witness, SAP failures, SAP S/4HANA Implementations
The enterprise technology landscape is riddled with ¬ERP failures from the last twenty years. Some are more extreme than others, but all have stories behind them. More importantly, they all contain important lessons that can help us in our digital transformations...
by Eric Kimberling | Aug 21, 2019 | Cloud ERP Implementations, Digital Strategy, 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
Big ERP vendors can sell software and services like nobody’s business. Companies such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Infor, and others have created monstrous machines capable of turning even the biggest skeptics into converts. But it all comes at a cost. In their quest...
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 that the...
