Technical Debt Management IS People Management

By |March 3rd, 2021|

  Many organizations face a major hidden obstacle with technical debt: people management for those who have a vested interest in the complexity and customization. They have established their careers on building and feeding this technical debt. As a result, they perceive removing that technical debt as a direct threat to their job stability. The change resistance and people issues slow, or in some cases prevent, badly needed changes-- even before making the transition to Digital Business. [...]

Technical Debt Vicious Cycle to Virtuous Cycle

By |February 25th, 2021|

Making the move beyond technical debt requires organization-level conscious decisions that complexity and customizing are enemies of. These enemies sabotage the agility you need to simplify and modernize as a competitor in today's digital marketplace. Long-term digital transformation victories begin with a simpler and modern landscape as a foundation for the composable enterprise. In turn, that composable enterprise capability to rapidly assemble, disassemble, and incorporate new capabilities p [...]

The Technical Debt Vicious Cycle Ruins Digital Efforts

By |September 9th, 2020|

On the journey to successful digital business transformation, we simplify technical complexity to reduce technical debt. That complexity creates a vicious cycle that needs to be addressed. If they do not address the need for simplifying and modernizing, many digital initiatives can falter, or even fail. Introducing customization, development, and complexity leads to the need for more customization, development, and complexity. In other words, you create a vicious cycle. As solutions or fixes ag [...]

How to Free Up Capital & Capacity for Digital Transformation

By |August 11th, 2020|

Technical Debt's High Costs Only Accelerate with Time While finding opportunities in the high cost of technical debt may seem counterintuitive, it is not. By simplifying and modernizing, you free up delivery capacity, and capital, that is tied up in old software (vendor maintenance and support staff). Both the simplification and modernization that come with the technical debt reduction allow you to more quickly make changes (more capacity), while creating a virtuous cycle of improvement. Think [...]

Series on SAP ERP Project Success Factors

By |December 19th, 2011|

This is a compiled sets of posts related to SAP project success criteria ================== The Top 5 ERP Success Factors by Project Stage from 22 Critical Success Factors https://www.iitrun.com/the-top-5-erp-success-factors-by-project-stage-from-22-critical-success-factors SAP Implementation Partner or Company Selection Criteria https://www.iitrun.com/sap-implementation-partner-or-company-selection-criteria SAP Success Factors for Vendor Selection – Responsibility Matrix 1 https://www.iitrun.co [...]

Overcome SAP-ERP System Integrator Sales Tactics 3

By |May 23rd, 2011|

This week, we will look at additional ERP sales tactics that can manipulate you into signing over your checkbook to inadequate ERP system integrators. As you continue to move through the process, the tactics get more interesting-- the integrators often move from manipulation (Overcome SAP-ERP System Integrator Sales Tactics 2) to more aggressive tactics. Often, software vendors with inferior products resort to many underhanded or dirty tactics and scams. If you think about it, these tactics mak [...]