Poor Relationships Line the Pockets of Your System Integrator February 27, 2018 John Belden Reading Time: 5 minutes In the world of ERP deployments where the reported project failure rates go as high as 70%, many factors cause… Read More Categories: ERP Program Management, System Integrators
Co-op Insurance Sues IBM for Breach of Contract: Is Agile at Scale Worth the Risk? January 23, 2018 John Belden Reading Time: 6 minutes On December 18th 2017, U.K. Insurance Co-Op Group’s CIS General Insurance Limited (CISGIL) filed a breach of contract lawsuit against… Read More Categories: Application Management Services, IBM, System Integrators
Can a Program Status Report be Too Sexy? November 20, 2017 John Belden Reading Time: 4 minutes Have you ever noticed how much time your consultant invests in producing a status report for your program? Filled with the appropriate… Read More Categories: Application Management Services, ERP Program Management, System Integrators
Costs Count but Talent Wins: 3 Vendor Talent Management Strategies that Improve Outcomes and Lower Costs October 31, 2017 John Belden Reading Time: 4 minutes Cost pressures on large IT-enabled business transformations can be intense. It is not surprising that program managers often become blinded… Read More Categories: Application Management Services, Digital Transformation, System Integrators
Defeating the SAP Project Optimism Death Star September 13, 2017 John Belden Reading Time: 3 minutes We have all seen the stories of SAP projects that spin hopelessly out of control. The tales of these failed… Read More Categories: ERP Program Management, HCL, IBM, SAP
Top 10 Excuses to Not Implement Best Practices and 5 Things to do About it August 22, 2017 John Belden Reading Time: 5 minutes Over the past 30 years, a great deal of research has been conducted on IT-enabled business transformations. As a result… Read More Categories: ERP Program Management, IT Sourcing, Oracle, SAP
Countersuit: HCL Claims MillerCoors Bullied Them July 31, 2017 John Belden Reading Time: 6 minutes On June 19th 2017, India-based IT and Engineering services firm HCL Technologies filed a countersuit against American brewery MillerCoors and… Read More Categories: Application Management Services, Deloitte, HCL, SAP, System Integrators
Are SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft Making Bank in the Cloud? July 16, 2017 John Belden Reading Time: 2 minutes Over the past few years, cloud has been the growth engine of the software and consulting industry. The marketing machines… Read More Categories: Accenture, Cloud, Deloitte, ERP Program Management, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP
Building the Confidence to Go-live June 9, 2017 John Belden Reading Time: 5 minutes Anyone who has been responsible for a major ERP go-live can attest to the following scenario: when it's time to… Read More Categories: ERP Program Management, IT Sourcing
MillerCoors Files $100M Suit Against HCL for Flawed SAP Implementation – What We Know and What We Would Like to Know March 23, 2017 John Belden Reading Time: 4 minutes On March 13th, 2017, American brewery MillerCoors filed a breach of contract lawsuit against India based HCL Technologies, an IT… Read More Categories: SAP