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SAP Service Delivery versus Value Delivery
SAP Service Delivery versus Value Delivery

SAP Service Delivery versus Value Delivery

By Bill Wood|April 30th, 2012|

In my review of academic literature around SAP or ERP implementations, I find some thought-provoking items. Recently, I reviewed a study that helped me to form a more complete picture of important issues in IT delivery. Even though I have been writing about it for years, I gained a new clarity around evaluating some of the existing delivery models [FN1]. What it comes down to is this question: Are you looking for service delivery or business results for your SAP project? SAP Service Delivery or [...]

Organizational Change Management Inside the SAP IT Support Organization
Organizational Change Management Inside the SAP IT Support Organization

Organizational Change Management Inside the SAP IT Support Organization

By Bill Wood|April 2nd, 2012|

The last few weeks have focused on the path for IT leaders to become strategic business partners. Academic research shows that to gain Sustained Business Value from SAP Business Software, you must focus technology implementation efforts on business benefits. This includes using metrics to determine if business goals were achieved by the software implementation effort. Achieving Business Value from SAP Investment was about case studies that evaluated organizations with a business benefits approa [...]

Phase 6 RUN SAP ASAP Methodology
Phase 6 RUN SAP ASAP Methodology

Phase 6 RUN SAP ASAP Methodology

By Bill Wood|March 26th, 2012|

Anyone who has been around SAP for any period of time is reasonably familiar with the SAP ASAP Methodology. In fact I rarely see sales presentation materials from many system integrators which do not at least mention it. Even some of the bigger integrators with custom methodologies may reference it in passing and show the SAP Implementation Roadmap to demonstrate how their methodology has some similarity to it, or supplements some of the few gaps that may remain. In a prev [...]

SAP Landscape Consolidation
SAP Landscape Consolidation

SAP Landscape Consolidation

By Bill Wood|February 13th, 2012|

For any number of reasons, many companies that run SAP end up with fragmented and piecemeal landscapes. This problem happens for many reasons: roll-outs, independent Business Units, mergers and acquisitions, immature software procurement processes, lack of a Software Asset Management program, etc. The results can leave your SAP application and business solution looking like someone set off an explosion with scattered pieces everywhere. More and more, I am seeing companies work to consolidate on [...]

SAP Reimplementation Method Key Considerations
SAP Reimplementation Method Key Considerations

SAP Reimplementation Method Key Considerations

By Bill Wood|January 30th, 2012|

Among the three variations for SAP software reimplementations are two key approaches. You either make the changes to your existing production system (or a cloned copy of it), or you make the changes in a pristine, newly designed environment. SAP Cloned Production System “Re”-Implementations Making changes in your existing production system (more likely in a cloned instance of it) ensures data consistency and ease of adjustment. However, several difficulties are involved. If you have a significa [...]

Why Use the SAP ASAP Methodology?
Why Use the SAP ASAP Methodology?

Why Use the SAP ASAP Methodology?

By Bill Wood|January 16th, 2012|

ASAP Methodology Background In the mid 1990’s, SAP had gained significant bad press and publicity around several high-profile project disasters that the company knew were completely avoidable. At that time Oracle, Baan, JD Edwards, and PeopleSoft all had salespeople making the case that SAP was too expensive, too complicated, and too time-consuming to implement. In response, SAP released the ASAP Methodology in the mid-late 90’s (around 1996 or 1997). R&D resources and efforts have since re [...]