SAP ROI through Strategic Business Transformation
Achieving SAP ROI requires a focus on change management, consulting excellence, and business metrics. Strategic SAP implementation is a journey that lasts a few years. Mar. 9, 2011
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Series on SAP Competency Center or SAP Center of Excellence
Explaining the differences between an SAP Competency Center or sometimes referred to as an SAP Center of Expertise and an SAP Center of Excellence. As Peter Drucker wrote, either Do Things Right or Do the Right Things. Mar. 6, 2011
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SAP Implementation Partner or Company Selection Criteria
SAP Project success depends on an implementation partner’s ability to ensure business transformation occurs. Successful implementation of an SAP system is the result of knowledgeable and dedicated people working together. It entails 1) company-wide commitment, 2) openness to change, 3) good planning and 4) experienced guidance. Nov. 9, 2010
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An SAP Center of Excellence or SAP Competency Center
There IS a difference between a Center of Excellence, Competency Center, and Expertise Center. Go-live SAP production support options - do you focus on doing things right or doing the right things? And how do you integrate SAP IT support into the day to day business operations of other business areas and departments? Nov. 5, 2010
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Where do you Start with SAP Return on Investment or SAP ROI?
SAP return on investment (ROI) begins with looking closely at how to integrate leading and lagging indicators with technology investment. For business benefit from SAP you must look past process and automation improvements. SAP must be leveraged to support innovation processes like reducing concept to market cycle times, or customer focus, etc. Several areas are affected by a properly done SAP implementations, such as: business transformation, customer acquisition, customer retention, return on investment, TCO, and company value propositions. Aug. 4, 2010
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SAP Implementation is an Investment NOT an Event
If your SAP implementation is an investment then ROI is possible but ONLY if you make system integrators define payback and business improvements. Rather than focusing on business needs only during the RFP and Vendor selection it must become the central theme of the entire application lifecyle. From project inception to normalized operations after go-live. This covers a number of areas such as: benchmarks, implementation costs, process improvements, return on investment, ROI, and success criteria. Aug. 2, 2010
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SAP Implementation Partner or Company Selection Criteria
Academic literature review on key success criteria for ERP vendor selection (or system integrator selection) and change management with insight for SAP or ERP vendor management. Jun. 28, 2010
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The Top 5 ERP Success Factors by Project Stage from 22 Critical Success Factors
Academic literature on the top 5 ERP Success Factors by Project stage identifying 22 critical success factors - shows the top 3 factors across all project stages. May. 31, 2010
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SAP Implementation Focus, Software Engineering or Business Process Engineering?
Considerations of the two primary ways to install SAP, you can change your business to fit the application or you can change the application to fit your business. This post looks at some of the issues and considerations depending on your business and implementation approach. May. 3, 2010
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Aligning SAP Scope to Meaningful Business Requirements
How to align actionable business information as part of your SAP scope and blueprinting exercise. Using a very simple approach businesses can realize much greater success and satisfaction with their SAP implementations. This topic covers blueprinting, business benefits, business case, using KPIs, and SAP scoping. Apr. 15, 2010
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Where SAP is Missing a Key Business and Market Opportunity for Leadership
A new survey shows that Saas is NOT what it is portrayed to be. The results are surprising by demonstrating that SAP may actually be a better fit for the enterprise than Saas models. New results show Saas delivers LOWER business results, costs about the same, and is not better received. Feb. 16, 2010
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Business and IT Alignment – Integrating Technology and IT Spend with Business
IT is not well aligned or integrated with business because technology consultants misunderstand what business actually is. This helps to clarify business to IT alignment. Today that alignment only exists in one dimension, the dimension of "operational excellence" while the other two key areas are frequently ignored or poorly addressed. Feb. 11, 2010
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What is the Proper Relationship for the CIO, CEO, and CFO?
Alignment and technology strategies for business success in a competitive marketplace. How the CIO role and responsibilities are changing and what CIOs can do to ensure a successful career. Feb. 11, 2010
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Business Strategy and IT Strategy to Reproduce Apple Innovation
Steve Jobs Apple innovation is focused on the intersection of competitive pressures, value propositions, IT Strategy and Business Strategy. Apple customer-centered innovation by exploiting "pent up demand" from customer frustration. Jan. 5, 2010
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ERP and SAP Business Case for ROI, Business Benefit, and Success
An ERP or SAP business case is not easy but it does not have to be a mystery either. Follow these guidelines to help develop a solid ERP business case. SAP business case, ERP business case, competitive pressures, ERP, ERP system, KPI, lagging indicator, leading indicator, ROI, SAP, SAP Implementation, SAP Project, SAP scope, SAP Upgrade, Value Proposition Nov. 23, 2009
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Competitive Pressures and Value Propositions, Is Lean the Answer?
The latest kick is Lean and Six Sigma but in most cases that will not make the difference in addressing competitive pressures or your value proposition. Focus on business drivers for your SAP implementation before the project, throughout the project, and after go-live to see real benefit. Nov. 18, 2009
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The Real Reason Executive Participation Creates SAP Project Success
Successful SAP projects occur with executive involvement because of the nature of their role of setting direction, creating long term goals, and developing strategy. This is the hidden reason that is often overlooked--, it is their strategy "imprint" on the project that changes the dynamics. Their forward looking insight provides more possibility for satisfied customers and successful implementations than the more common reasons of authority or visibiity. Oct. 30, 2009
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Using SAP to improve Revenue and Profitability
ROI from SAP - part of a series defining how to use the SAP application suite for delivering real ROI and business beneft. Top IT priorities in the last few year's from CIO surveys have shown that partnering in business growth are key areas for future SAP work. SAP focus is being directed to revenue and profitability, customer retention and acquisition, and a whole host of business centered success measures as key application objectives. SAP CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs are now looking to see SAP deliver real ROI and real business benefit. The SAP application suite is more than capable with the right approach and the right people. This series explores some of those techniques. Oct. 5, 2009
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Opportunities for INNOVATION - SAP, HELLO?
What if there were some really, really great ideas on how to dramatically change the SAP ERP application for far greater success in the marketplace? What if it would make a significant change in the usefulness of the application?What if it could be done with almost completely pre-existing functions, functionality, and code that SAP already has but has not done a good job themselves of integrating? A low cost, high benefit, game changing scenario in the ERP application space. What if these changes demonstrated enough benefit to create a compelling case for version upgrades without expiring support as the reason?  Oct. 5, 2009
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Some Reasons SAP Projects are Over Budget and Over Time
You're doing everything right. You've got executive support and sponsorship, a solid budget, you've been through a grueling vendor selection process, your scope is reasonable, you're using Solution Manager or following the ASAP methodology, but somehow your project is always in chaos. You're still doing lots of design work as you are ready to start integration testing. Something is wrong and you know it. Where is the problem and why are you headed for a blown budget and timeline? Sep. 30, 2009
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Why SAP Projects Fail to Deliver ROI (and how to change it)
Achieving and realizing ROI with SAP by changing the way implementations or upgrades are currently done. Part of a series on strategy based SAP implementations and the requirements for defining strategy-based success criteria. Sep. 24, 2009
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