Eight Best Practices for Planning Your Microsoft Dynamics ERP Project—And Staying Focused on the Big Picture
ERP implementation projects are invariably more complicated than executives expect. For that reason, it's easy to get bogged down in endless detail and decisions around the implementation process. It's essential to remain focused on the big picture. As you start to plan your new ERP implementation project, consider these Eight Best Practices for IT strategic planning.
1. Business Driven, IT Enabled
Successful IT programs are sponsored and fully endorsed by the business, and focus on business results - they are not just one-time IT projects or mere technology decisions. The relevant business stakeholders (including the CFO) should drive the requirements - not IT. CFOs should not and cannot simply defer decisions to their IT staff. The value drivers to the business and your comprehensive business requirements should be the most important guide to the selection and implementation approach of your IT solution(s).
2. Think End-to-End
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Well written
Liked your post. This is a great high level summary, however, you would agree that the real devil lies in executing the ideas presented here in.
Keep them coming!
Rishi
Very well written
Always worth repeating. Of course, the trick is to get universal buy-in that the new way is worth giving up "my way" and the tendency to drift back to mimicing it once the planning begins. We often see more enthusiasm about process improvement prior to beginning the real analysis and planning.