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SAP Failures: Is Lack of Sr. Mgt. Commitment the REAL Issue?

When ERP projects fail it is popular (and easy) for consultants and the project management team to simply throw up their hands and site “lack of senior management commitment” as the evil force behind it. However, like much of the conventional ERP wisdom out there today, the real issues can be much deeper than that.  In my previous blog entries, I posed the following questions: Why would any management team spend hundreds of thousands or perhaps  millions of dollars on ERP with the goal...

ERP Failure: The Organization is More Than Partially To Blame

You really have to wonder, does any organization spend millions of dollars on SAP (or any other software) with the goal of failing? The scope of a typical ERP project impacts almost every aspect of the organization and the implementation risks are real. It is not unusual when actual project timelines exceed the original schedule by well over 100%. The cost of consulting services alone can grow to 4 - 5 times the cost of the ERP software (with even greater upside risk potential). Finally, ...