Do We Really Need Another Acronym? The Case for "ERPaaS"
Believe it or not, it’s been over 10 years since Amazon & Google launched their first cloud products, and what started out as fairly basic...
Read MoreDon’t Bite Off More Than You Can Chew: Too Much Change Is a Recipe for Project Failure
It happens every year. The inevitable post-Thanksgiving dinner food coma. There’s just something about having all of that food in one place that seemingly compels us...
Read MoreTaking Care of Business: Your Business Case Isn’t Shelfware
My recent blog, “Beware of Dante’s (ERP) Inferno”, explored some of the pitfalls along a typical ERP journey and provided tips on how to avoid them....
Read MoreBeware of Dante’s (ERP) Inferno
ERP implementation projects are large, complex endeavors that can quickly spiral out of control. Blown budgets and delayed implementations are not uncommon, and in the...
Read MoreLet's Face It -- Risk Happens: Pay a Little Now, or a Lot Later
Congratulations! After an exhaustive (and probably exhausting) selection process, you’ve finally chosen the Systems Integrator (SI) who is going to lead you to the ERP...
Read MoreCleveland Rocks: Your ERP Implementation Needs a Winning Team
As a life-long Cleveland sports fan, I’ve come to appreciate first-hand the difficulty of assembling a winning team, let alone a championship caliber team. The...
Read MorePreventing an ERP Heart Attack
Suppose you go in for your annual checkup and discover that your cholesterol level is 210. Is that good news or bad news? Most doctors...
Read MoreThe Bay of Pigs: Mitigating ERP Project Risk
Next week marks the anniversary of one of the most infamous failures of the Cold War: The Bay of Pigs fiasco. Looking back at the...
Read MoreRisk Happens - How to Keep your Project on Course for Success
Earlier this month, we set aside a day to commemorate one of history’s more notable “failures” on Columbus Day. After all, while Columbus’ legacy is...
Read MoreThe Value of Experience – What you don’t know will cost you
Over the course of my career in IT, I’ve been part of roughly a dozen large projects involving negotiations with the likes of SAP, Accenture,...
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