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The 2025 Top 10 ERP Systems Report
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Private Equity & Venture Capital Insights: How to Help a Portfolio Company Achieve Merger Success
According to Harvard Business Review (HBR), up to 90% of all mergers and acquisitions fail. While these this can be a harrowing number, it doesn’t have to be your reality. If you’re considering taking a portfolio company through an M&A event, there are steps...
How to Achieve ERP Business Benefits
During ERP selection, companies typically see limitless possibilities in terms of potential improvements to their businesses. However, somewhere along the way, many projects fall short of expectations and the benefits of ERP underwhelm executive expectations. In our...
Private Equity & Venture Capital Insights: 8 Business Drivers for Digital Transformation in Struggling Companies
The hardest part is over. You’ve helped a struggling company get back on its feet, and now you’re thinking about how to transform the company to yield revenue growth. Does this necessarily mean you need to pursue digital transformation? It depends. In this post,...
Private Equity & Venture Capital Insights: How to Find a Good Turnaround and Restructuring Consulting Firm
Choosing a business turnaround consultant is an important decision for any struggling organization, but perhaps even more so for private equity and venture capital firms with struggling companies in their portfolios. If you’re in this situation, you need reliable data...
What is Change Management?
What is change management? Put simply, it’s the process that guides how an organization prepares, equips and empowers its workforce to successfully navigate organizational change. Are your employees as agile and adaptive as your enterprise strategy? If not, you...
Private Equity & Venture Capital Insights: Business Risks in the Food and Beverage Industry
The global food and beverage (F&B) industry is a lucrative and expanding industry, but not all companies are successful in it. There are many scenarios and risks that can cause your F&B portfolio companies to struggle, ranging from compliance issues to lagging...
5 ERP Post Go-live Optimization Tips
Your ERP project team has crossed the finish line – you’ve gone live! All that’s left to do is support the production environment, right? Not quite. Post go-live optimization is a phase that should be included in your ERP project plan and is often...
ERP Implementation Failure: Who is to Blame?
You began your ERP project with great expectations, but it derailed somewhere and now you’ve incurred extra costs, lost productivity and a frustrated workforce. Throughout this ERP implementation failure, who is to blame? While it’s tempting to immediately...
No Such Thing as Too Soon: How is Timing Important to Change Management?
The outcome of your organizational change management efforts hinges significantly on your timing. So, how is timing important to change management? Well, if you wait too long, the shock of the change overshadows any benefits that new technology and processes provide....
Private Equity & Venture Capital Insights: How to Save Struggling Manufacturing Companies in Your Portfolio
According to a recent survey by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), 80% of U.S. manufacturers anticipate a negative financial impact on their business due to the recent coronavirus pandemic. In addition, more than 50% say it will change their operations...
5 HCM Implementation Risks: Don’t Get Burned
Investing in your employees might be one of the smartest business moves you can make, but not all efforts turn out the way you plan. This is especially the case with human capital management (HCM) implementations. Human capital management software is designed to help...
How to Manage SaaS Contracts During Software Selection (so You Don’t Have to File a Lawsuit)
In their efforts to select and implement software as a service (SaaS) ERP systems, many organizations experience challenges. This is where effective contract management is essential. Today, we’re taking a closer look at a few important tips that can help you...
Tips for Reskilling Employees When Technology Changes Their Job Description
According to a recent survey of more than 3,000 global business decision-makers, nearly 70% said they planned to increase or maintain their digital transformation spending, despite recent setbacks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Are you planning to follow suit?...
Can Strategic Communication Solve Some of the Organizational Challenges Posed by COVID-19?
As businesses reopen across much of the US, many employees and managers are reflecting on their workplaces’ level of communication and support during the shutdown and reopening. Maybe your employer’s response seemed adequate, but how does it compare to the response of...
Private Equity & Venture Capital Insights: How to Save a Failing Retail Business in Your Portfolio
As a private equity firm, you likely have struggling businesses in your portfolio, and this may be negatively affecting your stability and your bottom line. Are some of these struggling businesses retail businesses? If so, here are a few strategies to use as you step...
Reasons for Government ERP Failure
It’s no secret that an enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation can be challenging. With so many factors to consider, decisions to make and employees to engage, it’s easy to see why ERP implementations can fail. The government sector is especially...
Private Equity & Venture Capital Insights: Lender and Investor Relations Tips for Struggling Portfolio Companies
When a company in your portfolio is struggling, there are many stakeholders who feel the impact. Investors, creditors, lenders, owners, directors and employees all have unique concerns regarding the troubled business. You’ll communicate directly with most of...
Podcast: How to Ensure Strategic Alignment Before an ERP Project or Digital Transformation
In this podcast, Laura Florence, Panorama’s Director of Business Development, explains how to conduct a technology assessment focused on people, process and technology. You’ll walk away with an understanding of how to use a technology assessment to ensure...
Private Equity & Venture Capital Insights: Liquidity Management Tips for Struggling Portfolio Companies
Like all businesses, private equity firms require access to readily available cash. You need these funds to cover a variety of expenses, including short-term investments and current debts. When companies in your portfolio are successful, this is rarely an issue. Their...
