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Marussia F1 Tour: My Intuition About ERP for the Mid-Market

05/16/2012 at 12:00 pm

At the end of April, I had the privilege of visiting the Marussia F1 Team in Banbury, England. Marussia F1 has been a Sage ERP X3 customer since August 2011 and our solution sits at the heart of their business. I was accompanying a group of six journalists from the UK and France and I…

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Parkinson’s Law and The Hidden Value of ERP

04/23/2012 at 3:45 pm

Cyril Northcote Parkinson was a British naval historian and author of numerous books (1). He developed a famous adage for a 1955 article in the magazine, The Economist: “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion,” which came to be known as Parkinson’s Law (2). While Parkinson’s original intent was to…

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Enterprise resource planning systems benefit from centers of excellence

03/15/2012 at 11:37 am

When companies make major investments in any kind of software or resource, it’s essential to be certain those resources are adequately supported.

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Enterprise resource planning systems should be defined by requirement blueprints

03/15/2012 at 11:35 am

If there’s one quality all the staff members planning and designing an ERP system should possess, it’s patience.

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A Number by Itself Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story

03/14/2012 at 8:00 am

If I told you that a small business had $2M in gross sales last month, what would your reaction be? That fact alone is not enough for an outsider to make any kind of judgment about how well that business is doing. Similarly, a number by itself cannot help business owners manage their organization more…

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Social Innovation – Letting Your Customers Influence Your Product Strategy

03/12/2012 at 8:00 am

Companies are starting to use social media to gain insight from their customers and use this to influence their product strategy. Kristin Zhivago recently published one of my favorite books on how talking to your customers to get their input can help accelerate revenue growth: Roadmap to Revenue: How to Sell the Way Your Customers Want…

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Enterprise resource planning doesn’t have to be static and rigid

02/24/2012 at 12:27 pm

Some companies that could immensely benefit from enterprise resource planning systems might not understand the nature of this type of business software.