Don’t Bite Off More Than You Can Chew: Too Much Change Is a Recipe for Project Failure

November 20, 2022
Shawn Stamp
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It happens every year. The inevitable post-Thanksgiving dinner food coma. There's just something about having all of that food in one…

Categories: ERP Program Management

6 Challenges of Agile at Scale for ERP

January 12, 2021
John Belden
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Overcoming these challenges are key to using agile for an ERP implementation. It's well worth the effort. Agile has been…

Categories: Agile

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…

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…

Categories: Application Management Services, IBM, System Integrators

Let’s Face It — Risk Happens: Pay a Little Now, or a Lot Later

December 19, 2017
Shawn Stamp
Reading Time: 3 minutes

Congratulations! After an exhaustive (and probably exhausting) selection process, you've finally chosen the Systems Integrator (SI) who is going to…

Categories: Application Management Services, ERP Program Management, IT Sourcing, 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…

Categories: Application Management Services, ERP Program Management, System Integrators

Cleveland Rocks: Your ERP Implementation Needs a Winning Team

October 11, 2017
Shawn Stamp
Reading Time: 3 minutes

As a life-long Cleveland sports fan, I've come to appreciate first-hand the difficulty of assembling a winning team, let alone…

Categories: Application Management Services, ERP Program Management, System Integrators

The Value of Experience – What you don’t know will cost you

July 13, 2016
Shawn Stamp
Reading Time: 4 minutes

Over the course of my career in IT, I've been part of roughly a dozen large projects involving negotiations with…

Categories: ERP Program Management

Accenture’s Deal to Move $45B Rio Tinto to the Cloud – The Risk of the “Unknown Unknowns”

April 15, 2015
John Belden
Reading Time: 4 minutes

Accenture announced on April 12, 2015, that they won a ground breaking “As-a-Service” deal with Rio Tinto, a UK based…

Categories: Accenture

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Don’t Bite Off More Than You Can Chew: Too Much Change Is a Recipe for Project Failure

6 Challenges of Agile at Scale for ERP

Poor Relationships Line the Pockets of Your System Integrator

Co-op Insurance Sues IBM for Breach of Contract: Is Agile at Scale Worth the Risk?

Let’s Face It — Risk Happens: Pay a Little Now, or a Lot Later

Can a Program Status Report be Too Sexy?

Cleveland Rocks: Your ERP Implementation Needs a Winning Team

The Value of Experience – What you don’t know will cost you

Accenture’s Deal to Move $45B Rio Tinto to the Cloud – The Risk of the “Unknown Unknowns”

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