In my 15 years of leading ERP projects, my common theme for successful project outcomes is to focus on the components of people, process and technology. I have found the best way to utilize each of these components as outlined here. People One of the biggest reasons for project failures revolves around people issues – employee opposition, no perceived need for change and organizational cynicism. If not addressed, this can result in confusion, increased project costs/delays and failure to achieve project goals. To address this component, I recommend the project team performs a Stakeholder Analy ..read more

As companies become more globally integrated, their supply chain must become a key competitive differentiator. To maintain their competitive advantage organizations must be able to overcome new challenges quickly, while keeping associated risks and costs low. For a company’s supply chain, improving inventory management, increasing productivity, improving distribution management, and reducing waste are key areas to optimize. Usually, getting better at forecasting, refining resource management and sales forecasts, monitoring manufacturing processes, as well as analyzing internal and external fac ..read more

When you were young, you probably experienced various pains as you grew.  Sometimes the pain was slight, other times greater, but chances are you did not address every pain by going to the doctor, you simply pushed through the pain. They did not appear to be serious.  Your business has many similarities to the human body.  It matures as it ages, gets smarter, is fragile, reacts to how you treat it, etc.   No middle market business immediately address every growing pain either, you just push through them thinking they aren’t so serious. With any personal pain or feeling, at some point, you real ..read more