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The Role of ERP In Lean Six Sigma
Many of our clients ask us how ERP enables or integrates with six sigma, lean manufacturing, and other business transformation projects. It’s a great question and something certainly worth considering while beginning the ERP software...
ERP Benefits: Myth or Reality?
Many industry leaders, including this one, have published thoughts regarding the evasive nature of ERP benefits. But how real is the issue of ERP benefits realization? To find out, it helps to look into some key statistics from our ongoing...
Overcoming an Organization’s Resistance to ERP and Change
It’s commonly perceived that people in general don’t like change, and ERP involves quite a bit of change. So that may explain why resistance to change is so common on ERP projects. But is there a way to resolve these change...
Alternative ERP Implementation Strategies: What’s the Best Approach?
Last week, we cited an industry article about alternative ways of implementing ERP systems. The article gives an example of a large ERP implementation that challenged the traditional notion of going live via a “hard” cutover at...
ERP Success Factor: The Importance of Communications
Most ERP project teams understand the value of training. Ensuring that employees understand how to complete transactions in a new ERP system is very important, and training in an ERP software package helps enable that level of understanding....
The Role of ERP Organizational Change in Other Change Initiatives
Recently a reader posted a great question to our Ask The ERP Experts segment of our website regarding the role of ERP organizational change management relative to other change initiatives within the company. The reader, an ERP project team...
Establishing ERP and IT Performance Measures
Our last posting gave on overview of some common pitfalls of an ERP or IT business case. That described one big step toward achieving a healthy Return on Investment on the millions of dollars required to implement any large system. However, to...
ERP Training: More Than Software Transactions
In any ERP implementation, it is generally understood that training is a key component of organizational change management and of the overall success of the ERP implementation. However, there is a subtle and distinct difference between training...
ERP Performance Measures and KPIs: Finding the Right Balance
A recent study by Meta Group reveals that approximately 80% Performance Metric Systems fail or are discontinued within two years. With all the buzz around measurement programs such as Six Sigma, Benchmarking, and Activity Based Management, this...
How Long Does It Really Take To Implement ERP?
A core problem with ERP implementations is unrealistic expectations about the duration required to go-live with the least amount of business risk and maximum level of business benefits. In fact, according to Panorama’s ERP research, over...
