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The 2023 Top 10 ERP Systems Report
This report highlights the ERP vendors and systems that our consulting team has found to be innovative and strong in functionality.
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The Role of Managers in Change Management: How These Employees Can Support Your Efforts
While new enterprise software can transform the way your organization operates, change of any kind can be challenging for team members to navigate. This is why it’s important to have a change management plan in place. At the most basic level, an organizational change...
Marin County ERP Failure Case Study: 4 Lessons Learned
The right implementation and integration team is critical to ERP implementation success. From project managers and department leaders to third-party consulting teams and systems integrators, every stakeholder matters. This is a lesson that Marin County, California...
Digital Transformation in Financial Services: 7 Tips for Success
According to one report, more than 90% of financial service providers accelerated the pace of their digital transformations in 2020. Those that accelerated their transformations by five times that year grew their year-over-year profits by up to 4.6 percentage points....
How ERP and eCommerce are Related (& Some Selection and Integration Considerations)
Many organizations are modernizing their eCommerce processes by implementing more robust eCommerce features and integrating them with their ERP system if they are not already built-in. As a result, organizations are able to transform their ERP system into a more...
7 ERP Implementation Mistakes and Tips for Avoiding Them
If you can anticipate a bump in the road, you can usually swerve before you hit it. That’s the philosophy behind learning more about common mistakes that can occur during an ERP implementation. While no one likes to envision their own project going awry, the...
How to Develop a Business Change Strategy: 3 Tips for Preparing Employees for Change
Whether you’re planning on changing your business processes, enterprise technology, or both, there’s no time like the present to tell employees what’s brewing. Yep, you heard us right – now is the time to inform employees about coming changes even if you’ve barely...
The Purpose of ERP: 10 Reasons it Exists
Your day-to-day workflows directly influence your operations. If they aren’t flowing like they should be, your employees, stakeholders, and customers can tell. Fortunately, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system can help you automate and simplify these...
Digital Transformation Pain Points & How to Overcome Them
Digital transformation is a major undertaking for any company. It requires you to restructure and rethink your business approach, which can be shaky ground for any company to enter. While there are many digital transformation pain points to be aware of, they...
How to Improve Process Efficiency: 4 Genius Hacks
An efficient process is like a well-oiled machine. Each part works as it should, and everything flows seamlessly together. While this is the goal, it isn’t always the reality. Businesses often stay stuck in a cycle of inefficiency because they fail to update...
Construction Industry Technology Trends That Execs Need to Know
According to one recent study, 96% of construction leaders believe that technology can improve productivity in their industry. In addition, 71% believe that it’s already led to improvements. While this sector has been historically slower to transform than...
ERP Pros and Cons: Avoid ERP Failure by Maximizing the Benefits and Minimizing the Drawbacks
When you’ve been a software expert witness on as many ERP failure cases as we have, it’s impossible to have a “fairy tale” view of ERP software. Sure, it can be a knight in shining armor, but it can also be a fire-breathing dragon. Today, we’re sharing some ERP pros...
Top 10 ERP Systems to Fulfill Your 2023 Goals
Organizations evaluating ERP software have hundreds of systems to choose from. To give you an idea of how many there are, we track more than 250 systems in our internal ERP vendor database. Clearly, the ERP comparison process can be daunting, which is why we...
Change Management Risks You Might Incur if You Continue With That Bare-Minimum OCM Plan
Effectively employing organizational change management (OCM) in a digital transformation can be challenging. How do you know what OCM activities to include and what messaging will be most effective? Long story short, you don’t know enough about OCM to develop an...
Issues With ERP Systems That You Needn’t Fear
While ERP systems have many benefits, organizations do experience issues with this comprehensive technology. Knowing this, some business leaders may be apprehensive about starting an ERP implementation in their own organization. Today, we’re sharing some of the most...
Manufacturing Knowledge Management: 8 Reasons to Rethink Your Strategy
Is your manufacturing company on the cusp of a digital transformation? Before you dive into this initiative, it’s important to make sure your knowledge management strategy is up to par. The way you process and share information matters, and defining the right...
What is an ERP System? (Past, Present & Future)
What is an ERP system? Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is used by organizations to manage front office and back office operations. An ERP solution integrates and automates organizations’ core business processes resulting in easier collaboration and...
5 Ways a Lack of System Integration Can Hurt Your Bottom Line
An IT project failure can take many forms. Sometimes, failure looks like a lack of system usage. Other times, it looks like a litany of technological shortcomings. One form of failure we often see in our software expert witness experience is a technological and...
How to Prepare Employees for Change: 6 Genius Hacks
Whether you’re implementing a new ERP system or simply updating your business processes, any type of change can be jarring to employees. Even if the new systems will ultimately make their jobs easier, it can be difficult for employees to anticipate these...
Digital Transformation in the Logistics Industry: A Beginner’s Guide
As more and more buyers hop online to make purchases, the logistics industry is staying busy. In 2021, nearly 60 million parcels were generated in the United States per day. While the logistics sector might be experiencing high demand, it’s edging toward a...
