Thanks to Stephen Arnold’s post for alerting me to this ERP Checklist. People who know me well, that I am a pretty practical person. Many of the items in this checklist seem to be common sense considerations for any type of business project.
A few checkpoints are very specific to an Enterprise Resource Project, i.e. module purchase decision.
The practical part me of encourages any project manager who is trying to resolve organizational challenges by using technology, to pay attention to a few key practical steps that translate across projects.
- Focus on the problem you are solving and evaluate potential solutions against their ability to solve the problem.
- Get Organizational Leader Buy-In – without this buy in any solution drowns before the boat is launched.
- Choose your point person carefully. This person is critical to the success of the project and must be able to communicate up and down business lines as well as organizing and managing a complex project in minute detail.
If you can concentrate on those three solutions as you move forward with an ERP solution you will be well on your way to success. Common sense must play an important part in complex business decisions otherwise the complexity overwhelms the larger process.
Constance Ard February 16, 2009
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