Category: Disruption
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Autonomous ERP
What is autonomous ERP and how will your ERP vendor support this emerging model?
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ERP Value Hypothesis
Value stories and value hypothesis are the latest marketing trend that ERP vendors are using to persuade customers. These tactics are not inherently wrong, however the customer needs to use the same discipline in selecting the right ERP vendor.
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Integration Trumps Functionality for Enterprise ERP
Many ERP integration cost analyses only focus on a small area and do not calculate the true cost of ownership. The purpose of this article is to elaborate on the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for integrating multiple ERP systems.
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Using AI/ML to Build Customer-specific ERP Roadmaps
The largest portion of ERP costs remains implementation costs. AI/ML guidance is a leading practice that can reduce implementation costs.
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Disrupting the ERP Cloud market with Business Value Realization Pricing
Gartner estimates that companies are achieving only 43% of their technology investments’ full potential value. Should ERP contracts be based on realized business value versus list price?
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Using AI/ML to create a Customer-specific ERP Business Process Maturity Model
In this post, I will define a case study where my utilization model is applied for a customer. A key point to be made here is that the health and effectiveness of the business process is directly related to the performance and utilization of ERP features that support the business process. Case Study – Procurement…
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Using AI/ML to predict ERP Utilization
There are not many methods on how to maximize ERP utilization. There are approaches that do a commendable effort in identifying some of the factors that influence ERP utilization. What is lacking are predictability, repeatability and harmony across the key components of a business solution. In my 25 years of ERP consulting experience, I have…
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JIT is Just Plain Wrong for Cloud ERP
Given that we are well in the third decade of ERP implementations, I still observe ERP implementations following outdated/misguided concepts that do not utilize limited resources to the fullest. One of these misapplied concepts is Just-In-Time (JIT) training. End user enablement continues to be an implementation challenge primarily due to the limited investment made for…
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ERP Project 101: Challenging ERP Requirements
I am not arrogant enough to believe that ERP software vendors are the guardians of best practices. Nor do I blindly subscribe to the notion that the customer is always right. What I do know and believe is that a good implementation partner will balance customer needs and wants with the fundamental value proposition of…
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ERP Project 101: Organizational Fit Gap
I think we can all agree that organizational fit is a key consideration for successful ERP selections and implementations. However, mention the phase “fit/gap” or “gap analysis” and most people will fixate on the ERP software. There are several examples of functional/software fit-gap templates/activities but very few organizational fit-gap templates/guides. The goal of this blog…