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Becoming “Operational” Excellent

04/12/2011 at 2:30 pm

“Excellence” is a word you’ve probably seen thousands of times in your professional and academic life. From stickers reading “Excelente!” on your eighth grade Spanish papers to college professors demanding that you perform excellently in their classrooms, being excellent means being better than great. And now it has followed you from the classroom to the…

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What Does ERP Project Success Look Like to You?

12/10/2010 at 2:37 pm

ERP buyers today are smart. They do their homework, define their selection criteria, compare systems, and do research on their selected business partner. Surprisingly though, determining project success criteria is often overlooked even by the most diligent firms. Starting with the end in mind At the completion of your project, what will make you look…

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7 Tips and Techniques for Tackling Change Management

11/02/2010 at 11:28 am

Last month we touched on the fact that implementing a new ERP system is a foundation for Business Process Improvement, and process improvement is the key to value creation. But we know that itâ€™s really difficult to get people fired up about changing behaviors â€“ particularly their own!! However, the stakes are high and the…

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ERP Training

11/01/2010 at 10:23 am

While your business is working hard to select the right ERP vendor, choose the right ERP system and implement the entire thing in a timely and cost-effective manner, other things can often fall by the wayside. One part of the process that can get tossed asunder is training. However, neglecting to properly train and prepare…

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The ERP Project Manager: Why You Donâ€™t Need One!

09/07/2010 at 9:55 am

Let’s face it. ERP projects have a high failure rate. It really doesn’t matter how you define failure, or how you measure failure. If you ask key stakeholders about their ERP project most will express serious reservations about the project time, cost, suspect benefits, loss of business focus, business interruption – the list goes on…

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Keeping Calm is Key to Good Leadership

07/26/2010 at 9:35 am

The cubicle is the ultimate symbol of office life. It may not be the most positive item to associate with the corporate world, but thanks to years of Dilbert cartoons, it’s what we’re left with. Luckily, the days of the cubicle are going to the way of the dodo – that is, they’re soon to…