by Eric Kimberling | Jul 4, 2020 | Cloud ERP Implementations, CRM Implementations, ERP Failures, ERP Implementations, Global ERP Implementations, HCM Implementations, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Implementations, NetSuite Implementations, Oracle Cloud ERP Implementations, Oracle ERP Cloud Failures, SAP failures, SAP S/4HANA Implementations, Small Business ERP Implementations, SuccessFactors Implementations, Workday Implementations
Digital transformation and ERP failures are caused by a number of things. Poor project management, lack of internal alignment, and poor organizational change management are just a handful of reasons by transformations so commonly fail. Behind these and other common...
by Eric Kimberling | May 30, 2020 | ERP Failures, SAP failures
It has become clear in recent months that many companies won’t survive the pandemic and recession of 2020. Hertz recently filed for bankruptcy – the latest in a string of casualties in an uncertain economic environment. What did Hertz do wrong? While this may not be a...
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...
