How to Succeed in Digital Transformation and ERP Initiatives in 2025
As the New Year begins, it’s the perfect time to reflect on past challenges and set new goals for digital transformation and ERP initiatives. Despite advancements in technology, many organizations continue to fall into the same traps that have led to failures for decades. However, with thoughtful strategies and careful planning, businesses can overcome these […]
Learning from the Mistakes That Cost CIOs and IT Leaders Their Jobs [Career Advice]
One of the key individuals we work with at our client organizations is the CIO, who may also be referred to as the IT Director, Vice President of IT, or Chief Technology Officer. In this discussion, I will primarily use the term CIO to represent the leader of the IT group or one of the core leaders within it. Today, I will address the common reasons why IT leaders often face termination, the mistakes they make, and the pitfalls they encounter during their transformation efforts or day-to-day responsibilities. Throughout this video, you will notice a recurring theme: ignorance can lead to failure. Many times, CIOs are unaware of certain aspects or have blind spots that contribute to their downfall and eventual termination. Therefore, the focus today is on identifying strategies to avoid these risks and pitfalls as a CIO.
Advice for Digital Transformation Executive Sponsors and Steering Committees
Executive sponsorship and leadership are among the most critical roles in any digital transformation project. However, executives and their project teams often don’t know what an executive should do to be effective in a digital transformation. In this article we will discuss how we would approach being an Executive Sponsor.
Explaining the Value of Digital Transformation to Technology illiterate Executives
As the business world increasingly goes digital, it’s more important than ever for companies to have a clear and effective digital transformation strategy. But what if your company’s executives are technology illiterate? How can you explain the value of digital transformation in a way that they’ll understand? In many ways, being less tech-savvy can be […]
The Role of a Digital Transformation Leader
As a leader in a digital transformation, your responsibilities go way further than identifying and rolling out new technologies. A digital transformation leader must understand and embrace everything from the company’s business model, processes, people, company culture, and, most importantly, the company’s overarching corporate strategy. They must have a solid grasp on strategy articulation, blooming […]
Why the CIO Role is the Toughest Job in the C-Suite
Digitalization has certainly thrust the role of the CIO into the forefront of mainstream technology media and journalists of tech magazines. Everyone is suddenly an expert on the role of the CIO as if this magical being can ignore all the pitfalls that come with working in corporates and simply be innovative in the […]
Information à destination des exécutifs : Comment mener une transformation digitale avec succès
Il existe tout un tas de sujets critiques dont les exécutifs doivent se saisir avant de se lancer dans l’aventure de la transformation digitale. Il y a souvent un fossé entre la perception et la réalité. Ce que nous pensons devoir se produire et ce qui a en fait besoin de se produire sont souvent en décalage. A moins que nous n’associions volontairement les deux, le fossé peut perdurer lors du projet de transformation digitale et mener à un échec ERP. Etudions ensemble comment combler ce fossé, et quel concept vous devriez maîtriser tandis que vous élaborez votre stratégie de transformation digitale.
ERP and Football – The Importance of a Good Team
Sam Graham Recently, this website published an article that compared NFL teams to ERP systems. That led to a suggestion that an article looking at European football teams might be interesting but that turns out not to be as easy as first thought. First of all, just as not everybody agrees on what ERP is, […]
Five ERP Myths that can Stall Your ERP Software Initiative
In the recent blog Assembling an EPR Project Team: Three Things You Didn’t Anticipate I discussed how executive sponsorship can wharf, where employee participation goes wrong, and why status reporting for ERP projects can get off track. A logical extension to this subject are some of the “myths” that companies hold onto when attempting to […]
Assembling an ERP Project Team: Three Things You Didn’t Anticipate
ERP projects are never easy. Companies typically have an internal project team designated to the initiative as well as experienced external resources. Theoretically this should be a winning combination. Let’s dig a little deeper into what we as outside independent ERP consultants sometimes find are drawbacks when forming and maintaining your internal project team: 1. […]
Executive Buy-In: The Final Frontier to ERP Success
Why is executive buy-in so darn hard and fraught with surprises? Well the answers are many, and in this blog, we’ll explore a few that you may not have considered. Executive buy-in is a subset of organizational change management (OCM) and more than just terminology. An effective and well thought out OCM strategy is critical […]
Motivating your CORE ERP Project Team
We have previously discussed the importance of an ERP project CORE team in completing a successful ERP, HCM or other enterprise application implementation. This is the team of individuals at the project level that takes responsibility for ensuring the project plan is carried through, deals with consultants and vendors and funnels critical decisions to the […]