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Aligning ERP with Your Overall Business Strategy
One of our recent blog entries discussed how to define to-be processes as part of a successful IT implementation. Based on this entry, one reader questioned whether or not this is feasible if the IT project is not aligned with overall business strategy.This reader is...The Politics of ERP Projects
Large ERP and IT projects can be exciting: they can provide new technologies, new business processes, and endless possibilities to organizations that implement them. However, implementing the technologies and overcoming some of the organization’s political...Addressing Cultural Change and Resistance to ERP Projects
It seems that ERP projects always have some type of employee resistance to change, especially in union environments or in companies that have employees with very long tenures with the company. The good news is that if you can recognize this early in the process, you...The Importance of Executive Buy-In on Your ERP Project
One of most important ERP project critical success factors is executive buy-in and support. But what exactly does “buy-in” mean? Approve the funds to get the project going? Or does it mean more than this? Executive buy-in needs to go beyond approving the...It’s Not a Small World After All: Managing Change on International ERP Projects
When implementing ERP software in multiple countries, corporate executives face the issue of managing organizational change in an international environment. For any large change initiative, organizational change management is a challenging and difficult issue to...
