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The data quality that eats the business case
A program rarely fails on the processes. It fails on the data beneath them — and that sits on no board slide. I have seen three very different cases, with the same lesson. In the first, a company was already…
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The cheap hour that turns expensive
The hourly rate was on the slide, and it was unbeatable. A year later the same task cost more than before — the extra cost had just moved somewhere else. We ran SAP landscapes, and the company was adding new…
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An ERP end-of-maintenance forces a redesign of processes
An end-of-maintenance sounds like a deadline for IT to administer. A date in the calendar by which something has to be done. It is exactly this reading that misleads. SAP has, for understandable reasons, no interest in maintaining two product…
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Build, Buy or Greenfield
Every system decision is at its core a make-or-buy question. Do we build, do we buy, or do we start fresh? Build, buy or greenfield are just three names for the same underlying decision — and it is almost never…
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Technology is a board decision
Almost every large technology initiative first lands on a desk in IT or in a business unit. Usually it stays there. That is the first mistake, and rarely the cheapest. The reflex is understandable. A new system, a new tool,…