We all know it’s not the saying but the doing that is the difficult part. With the pace and complexity of business today, it can be a significant challenge to align all parties involved and turn goals into results. Always keep the following 5 rules in mind when aligning your team toward clear goals.
Best-in-class business project managers continuously seek opportunities to deliver better projects: quicker, leaner and with less risk. Many of them experiment with online project, collaboration and task management tools, as an alternative to traditional collaboration with e-mail and excel. However, new challenges arise when using those tools in a business context, with many different stakeholders …
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In this post, we highlight a couple of key problems that typically arise at the moment of going live with SAP or any other ERP system. Some are easy to resolve, others will require the right level of upfront effort and attention. When the organization is well prepared, it is our experience that headaches are …
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When is your organization ready for an SAP implementation or project? Will the organization ever be ready? SAP projects are business transformation initiatives. Hence, checking organizational readiness is key. If not done properly, the project, and even your business, can seriously be jeopardized. One thing you definitely should not do when evaluating organizational readiness is rely …
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PLAN (before) Do we really need to have a meeting? Are there any alternatives? Plan your meetings early in the week and the morning (Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday – don’t plan meetings on a Friday). Prepare your meeting: having an agenda is just not enough; distribute meeting relevant information 3 days ahead. Reduce the number …
SAP/ERP implementations are very time-consuming and they take preparation over long periods. The following 5 tips and tricks can help you to significantly reduce the actual duration of an SAP/ERP project. 1. Start with WHY? Make sure all stakeholders involved are aligned on the reasons why the ERP system is being implemented (3 reasons to …
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Short answer When implementing an ERP solution there is much more involved than just technology. Long answer Technology is the easy part. Changing the organization and its (hidden) habits is a lot more cumbersome. The business transformation part is typically seriously underestimated. If asked to estimate the effort distribution on a typical project, we would …
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The main purpose of a business case is to get approval and funding for your project. The business case is the main deliverable before you initiate the project. It’s one of the key documents that senior managers review when deciding whether to give a project the funding it requires to go ahead. In the business case, you …
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No one will deny that ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) implementation projects have a massive impact on your organization. Even if they are being executed in an efficient way, they consume a lot of effort, time and cash. There is also an opportunity cost involved; the effort, time and cash cannot simultaneously be invested in other …
Periodic status reviews are important to keep your project ‘on target’. A status report can have different audiences: senior management and project sponsors program management core project team others The trick is to make comprehensive status reports that provide the right level of information to all audiences involved. The key question for all audiences should …
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