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Does ERP Really Lead to Labor Cost Savings?
We’ve all seen the business cases related to how ERP will save X Corporation $X millions of labor costs in just a few short years. But how real are labor cost savings in ERP implementations? The answer is that it depends. Most companies fail to go back and...Including Organizational Change Management in your ERP Project Plan Faciliates Success
A widely known critical success factor for effective ERP or large IT projects is organizational change management. But what exactly is change management, and what key activities should you include in your project plan? Organizational change management means a lot of...Fixing a Failed ERP Implementation
Most of my entries in this blog have focused on proactive measures that can be taken to ensure ERP or IT success. However, what happens if you’re already in the middle of a failed ERP implementation? The good news is that troubled IT implementations can be...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...
