System Integrator Handbook
Explore our extensive inventory of System Integrator content to gain key insights into successfully sourcing and managing your SIs throughout the project lifecycle.
We’ve organized this content into three main categories based on where you may be in your project.
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Project Formation
SI Sourcing
- 4 Critical Success Factors for Selecting an SAP System Implementation Provider
- 4 Tactics for Getting SIs to Bid on Your Project
- [On-Demand Webinar] Rethinking Your S/4HANA SI Selection Criteria
- Considerations for Selecting an SAP System Integrator
- Sole Sourcing Negotiations: SI Tactics and CIO Countermeasures
- Ensuring Your SI’s Delivery Stacks Up to Your Expectations
- Dirty Little Secrets of Your System Integrator: Why Companies Still Go Over Budget
- Pitfalls to Avoid During the RFP Evaluation Process: A Christmas Analogy
Vendor Statement of Work
Estimating and Business Case
- Exploring the “Unknown Unknowns” in IT-Enabled Digital Transformation Estimates
- Your ERP Budget is Like Your Holiday Funds: It Only Goes So Far
- Timing Your Move to S/4HANA
- Taking Care of Business: Your Business Case Isn’t Shelfware
- Don’t Bite Off More Than You Can Chew: Too Much Change Is a Recipe for Project Failure
- Eleven IT-Enabled Transformation Leadership Agenda Items
Staffing IT Projects
Managing Internal Talent
- 6 Ways to Train Your Internal Team to Maximize the Value of Consultants
- Project Fire Drill: When Resources Run Amok
External Staffing
Project Execution
Risks & Contingency Planning
- [On-Demand Webinar] How Does Your IT Project Compare? Benchmarking to Mitigate Biases and Blind Spots
- System Integrator Risk Mitigation Processes Often Have the Opposite Effect
- Dirty Little Secrets of Your System Integrator: Why Companies Still Go Over Budget
- Don’t Become an ERP Horror Story – Implement Solid Risk Management
- Don’t Bite Off More Than You Can Chew: Too Much Change Is a Recipe for Project Failure
- Beware of Dante’s (ERP) Inferno
- Pitfalls to Avoid During the RFP Evaluation Process: A Christmas Analogy
Project Status Reporting
Managing Sponsors and Steering Committee
- [On-Demand Webinar] Don’t Line the Pockets of Your System Integrator
- Why steering committees fail to engage (and 5 ways to hold them accountable)
- High-Performing Multi-Vendor Transformation Teams – How to Make Them Work
- Poor Relationships Line the Pockets of Your System Integrator
- 5 Tips for Navigating Supplier Relationships in an Economic Downturn
- System Integrator’s Quality Tax: 10 Ways to Convert the Tax into Real Delivered Value!
- CEOs and CFOs Held Accountable for Digital Transformation Failures: Revlon Joins the Ranks
- Implementing SAP S/4HANA Digital Core – Don’t Be a Prisoner to Unnecessary Costs
Maintaining Leverage and Switching Costs
Deep Dive Into Project Success
- [On-Demand Webinar] High-Performing Multi-Vendor Transformation Teams – How to Make Them Work
- [On-Demand Webinar] Contracting & Delivering: Enterprise Scale Agile Projects
- 5 Tips for Executing a Successful ERP Go-Live
- Eleven IT-Enabled Transformation Leadership Agenda Items
- Give Your ERP Program a Tune-Up
- 8 Questions to Evaluate the Resiliency of a Digital Transformation Program