by Panorama Consulting Group | Jan 11, 2013 | Change Management, ERP Blog
Any industry expert will tell you that ERP implementations are not just about technology. People and business processes matter more to the success of an ERP project than abundant IT staffing and strategic customization ever will. Nonetheless, most organizations – no...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jan 3, 2013 | Change Management, ERP Blog
This webinar clip covers recommendations on how organizations can leverage organizational change management (OCM) tools and processes to mitigate OCM challenges. The full webinar is available here: Five Key Organizational Change Management Challenges With ERP...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jan 2, 2013 | Business Process Management, Change Management, ERP Blog, Expert Witness, Implementation
Now that the holidays are over and the predictions for 2013 are in, we can get back to the business at hand for the coming year. This is the time when many of our existing and potential clients are either planning for upgrades or improvements or looking for ways to...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Dec 7, 2012 | Change Management, ERP Blog, Government
The U.S. Air Force has finally made the long anticipated decision to completely scrap a major ERP software project after spending more than $1B over the last seven years. When Oracle won the contract in 2005, securing the deal over rivals such as SAP, the price tag...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Nov 12, 2012 | Business Process Management, Change Management, ERP Blog, Implementation
Businesses that implement ERP systems have nothing but good intentions when deciding to reengineer business processes and alter IT infrastructure. Unfortunately, employees sometimes overlook this good intent and focus solely on the consequences: new business...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Nov 5, 2012 | Change Management, ERP Blog, Implementation
ERP implementations can be momentously unsettling to executives, employees and end-users who feel that a new ERP system is intrusive, unnecessary and inconvenient to their usual business processes. In frustration, end-users can intentionally or unintentionally...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Oct 26, 2012 | Business Process Management, Change Management, ERP Blog, Implementation
When an ERP implementation fails, it’s easy to blame the software, the project manager or the ERP consultants but there are less obvious causes. Think organizational change management. This ERP implementation success factor is all too often overlooked or...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Oct 22, 2012 | Change Management, Digital Strategy, ERP Blog, Implementation
The life of a CIO is anything but easy – and when you throw an ERP implementation into the mix, all bets are off. CIOs of organizations undergoing large-scale ERP implementations are required to maintain a delicate balance between their role on the executive team and...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Aug 20, 2012 | Change Management, Digital Strategy, ERP Blog
Are you looking for ways to obliterate any return from your ERP system, confuse your employees and/or compromise your organizational health overall? Then you’re in the right place! We’ve collected the top ways to do just that! Keep reading for our tips on how to systematically — and permanently — derail ERP software usage at […]
by Panorama Consulting Group | Aug 13, 2012 | Change Management, ERP Blog, Implementation
If you received recognition every time you learned a new skill or completed an important task, would you be more engaged at work? This question is exactly what some businesses have been debating as they consider the benefits of diving into one of the newest emerging industries in the U.S.: “gamification.” Many have called gamification a […]
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jul 23, 2012 | Change Management, ERP Blog
In most situations, creativity is pretty great. In the midst of a high-stress ERP implementations, however, creativity is probably the last thing the C-level wants to see in the end-user community. But look at it from a typical user’s point of view: when no one...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jun 25, 2012 | Change Management, ERP Blog, Implementation
Problems with out-of-date or poorly functioning ERP software often are abundantly clear to anyone working within the system. But a disconnect can arise when those tasked with making decisions about the ERP system don’t actually use the ERP system. After all, it’s a...
by Panorama Consulting Group | May 7, 2012 | Business Process Management, Change Management, ERP Blog
One of my favorite books is The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein. The book details the psychological and cultural aspects of societies in relation to systematic change. According to the author, it is extremely difficult to impose...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Apr 30, 2012 | Change Management, ERP Blog
As a reader of our blog posts and white papers, you probably know by now that one of the absolutely critical components of ERP success is organizational change management (or OCM). But did you know that a solid OCM plan actually can decrease the fixed costs of IT...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Mar 12, 2012 | Change Management, ERP Blog, Implementation
Executive buy-in is one of the most critical success factors of an ERP implementation. Executives provide the vision, strategy and decision-making capabilities necessary to reap all of the business benefits possible from a new or upgraded ERP system. But even...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Mar 5, 2012 | Change Management, ERP Blog
For my money, managing a global ERP implementation ranks right up there with the hardest work-related tasks in existence. And, technical issues notwithstanding, the hardest part of this hard task might just be aligning corporate culture around a singular goal —...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Feb 6, 2012 | Change Management, ERP Blog
We’ve all been there. After hours of feverish work, you try to hit “Save” on your computer and nothing happens. Or it won’t export. Or it just freezes up. The stress of completing important tasks coupled with the stress of a computer (or ERP...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Jan 13, 2012 | Change Management, ERP Blog
Panorama Consulting has been a high-growth company since President Eric Kimberling first opened the doors seven years ago. In 2011, Panorama joined The Prescott Group and successfully integrated a corporate restructure that included bringing on new members to its...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Dec 23, 2011 | Change Management, ERP Blog
Finally. You are done with implementation and your ERP system is up and running. You were able to navigate through the grueling and critically important process of figuring out which ERP software package you are going to count on to run the business. You were able to...
by Panorama Consulting Group | Dec 19, 2011 | Change Management, ERP Blog, Implementation
As anyone who has ever been micromanaged by a supervisor can tell you, its effects can be disastrous. But when it’s undertaken by a leader in a project as important as an ERP implementation, the results can be absolutely fatal . . . at least to the health of the...