To Change or Not to Change: The Decision to Stay on the Green Screen
For the younger folks reading, this is a serious question. The metrics range in estimation, but there is an estimated 100,000 companies still running iSeries or AS/400 platforms. We get calls nearly every day from executives and IT managers questioning if it’s time to move from their legacy systems to one of the top-ranked ERP […]
How to Estimate ERP and HCM Implementation Time
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 time. Forget about cloud solutions, easy-to-use user interfaces, […]
Motivating your CORE ERP Project Team
We have previously discussed the importance of an ERP project CORE team in completing a successful ERP, HCM or other enterprise application implementation. This is the team of individuals at the project level that takes responsibility for ensuring the project plan is carried through, deals with consultants and vendors and funnels critical decisions to the […]
Problems with 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 don’t have an organizational change strategy at all or don’t see the value of this critical activity. This led to […]
Motivating your CORE ERP Project Team
We have previously discussed the importance of a CORE team in completing a successful ERP, HCM or other enterprise application implementation. This is the team of individuals at the project level that takes responsibility for ensuring the project plan is carried through, deals with consultants and vendors and funnels critical decisions to the executive steering […]
Who Is Winning the ERP Implementation Battle: US vs. Europe?
Makes for a good soccer (sorry: futbol) discussion, as well, but today we’re talking about ERP implementations. Who’s leading the race? Where does an ERP implementation have a better chance of success: the US or Europe? To evaluate, we will consider the following factors: Availability of software, availability of resources, adoption of organizational change management […]
Best ERP Executive Steering Committee Ever?
As ERP consultants that help some of the world’s leading organizations through their digital transformations, we have seen the good, the bad, and the ugly among client team members. Some are well prepared and wired for a successful implementation. Others are misaligned and ill-suited to handle a transformation of this magnitude. Most are somewhere in […]
What Causes ERP Implementation Delays?
As Pink Floyd once said: “every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time.” This classic rock lyric is true for ERP implementations as well. ERP implementation delays are one of the most common problems with digital transformations. Your software vendor or systems integrator assures you that you can do it in that […]
Avoiding the Digital Abyss: Create a Digital Strategy and Roadmap
Exciting new technologies are flooding the market on a daily basis, connecting and automating nearly every aspect of our personal and professional lives. Technology makes our lives and jobs faster, easier, more enjoyable and more profitable through IoT, at least that’s what we’re told. But there has to be a limit. Technology IS never ending. […]
Is Your Legacy System a Cybersecurity Ticking Time Bomb?
We encounter many clients who, given the chance, readily talk about the pain points of their IT systems. Many have been living with these symptoms for years and seem eerily accepting of them. Others are unknowingly increasing their cybersecurity threats during digital transformation and ERP initiatives. Since I can turn anything into a car analogy, […]
How to Get Executive Alignment on Your ERP or HCM Implementation
Executive misalignment is one of the biggest challenges with ERP and HCM implementations. Misalignment among executive is one issue. Misalignment between an executive team and its transformation team poses a second layer of difficulty during transformations. But what exactly does “alignment” mean? It’s a nebulous term at best. Actually solving the alignment conundrum can be […]
Digital Transformation Gone Wrong at PG&E
Even if you don’t live in California, you’re probably aware of the devastating fires that sadly took lives and property over the last few years. A big part of this story can be pointed at electrical utility grids and lines and the poor maintenance thereof. When tested by high winds, massive fires and outages have […]