Survey Results are in for ERP Implementation Strategies
It has been a very busy 1st quarter closing and I have not been able to post an article in a while. I cannot really explain the business activity other than to recognize that there is a “business cycle” and despite stimulus packages or not, our economy was going to emerge from the recession sooner or later. From the depths of the economic woes, it appears the economy is emerging later rather than sooner. There is a pent-up demand out there, for example durable items still have a tendency of wearing out and needing to be replaced. As far as software licensing and the consulting agreements needed to implement the software, procurement departments had been under a short leash, but projects are starting to come online.
In the interim, Houston Neal, Director of Marketing at Software Advice, has collected all the results of his survey on the ERP Implementation Strategies in use and presented them in an updated version of his article entitled ERP Implementation Strategies – A Guide to ERP Implementation Methodology (see my posting in this Blog immediately below). The results may be of interest and assist in your decision making process and which path to take. Neal has also inserted an interesting commentary section from the respondents claiming their implementation failed. Here is a quick glance at those results from the 45 respondents:
“Of those that answered “No,” we received the following comments:
“Logistics problem (visa issue delay, user delay for data collection, delay in top management support).” – Phased Rollout
“We are still under the progress of phased manner, only “Materials and Finance” is under parallel run and they’re facing some bugs/modifications.” – Parallel Adoption
“Still running both systems in parallel, 3 years later!” – Parallel Adoption
“1 year late, although all other success parameters achieved.” – Big Bang
“Concentrating on tools not architecture.” – Big Bang”
