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SAP Consulting Services for Business Results and ROI
SAP Consulting Services for Business Results and ROI

SAP Consulting Services for Business Results and ROI

By Bill Wood|August 8th, 2011|

The previous post took a hard look at the types of consulting services you need for a high-speed SAP project (see SAP Consultants for High Speed SAP Projects). Consultants who work on SAP projects in the small- and mid-sized business space develop excellent breadth of SAP experience across an entire area. This week, we will look at the other side of that coin: consultant skills from large, long-term type SAP projects and what their experience provides. Consultants on the larger, longer-term SAP [...]

SAP Consultants for Better SAP Projects
SAP Consultants for Better SAP Projects

SAP Consultants for Better SAP Projects

By Bill Wood|August 1st, 2011|

No matter what size company or organization you have, the type of consulting experience you choose will have a huge impact on the results of your SAP solution. For high-speed projects, consultants who have several small or mid-sized SAP project experiences tend to be more well rounded. They are skilled at delivering the more difficult SAP solutions with standard functionality and at a faster pace than their counterparts. Why Are SAP Consultants with Many Small and Midsized Projects Uniquely Qua [...]

Scams, Shams, ERP System Integrator Tactics
Scams, Shams, ERP System Integrator Tactics

Scams, Shams, ERP System Integrator Tactics

By Bill Wood|April 25th, 2011|

I read two articles that I wanted to summarize and review here. The articles provide two opposing viewpoints of consulting and some lessons learned for service buyers. This article on CIO about “7 Dirty Consultant Tricks (and How to Avoid Them)” [FN1] caught my attention. In particular, I was interested in the part about ways consultants try to “extract money from their clients…”: IT consultants are among the most slippery of the bunch. Among their favorite tricks: Using "scope change" t [...]

SAP Project Fraud Allegations in Marin County v Deloitte, SAP Services
SAP Project Fraud Allegations in Marin County v Deloitte, SAP Services

SAP Project Fraud Allegations in Marin County v Deloitte, SAP Services

By Bill Wood|March 28th, 2011|

While many people from companies such as Deloitte are incredibly talented, even those companies may have a few bad apples that can and sometimes do spoil the whole entire bushel. In this article, we explore such an occurrence. ===================== The Marin County California Lawsuit against Deloitte Consulting took an interesting turn. The initial complaint was filed in mid-2010 against Deloitte only for fraud in providing inept and incompetent consultants (for background, see my previous post [...]

Industry Specific SAP Consulting vs Deep SAP Application Experience
Industry Specific SAP Consulting vs Deep SAP Application Experience

Industry Specific SAP Consulting vs Deep SAP Application Experience

By Bill Wood|March 21st, 2011|

The need for industry-specific SAP experience is probably one of the most overrated ideas in the SAP consulting field. The most successful SAP implementations require integration of the business requirements with application functionality. To do this well requires three separate domains of expertise: industry expertise, application expertise, and consulting skills. One of those domains, consulting skills, is based on skills in change management, communication, process engineering, people skills [...]

Expert SAP Consulting to Reduce SAP TCO and Improve SAP ROI
Expert SAP Consulting to Reduce SAP TCO and Improve SAP ROI

Expert SAP Consulting to Reduce SAP TCO and Improve SAP ROI

By Bill Wood|January 10th, 2011|

This is a follow-up to a previous post that introduced a fascinating study on expert performance (see Successful SAP Project Team Composition – Technicians or Experts?). The author insightfully noted that expert performance requires not experience alone, but a very special kind of experience. Expert performance requires a focused type of continuous achievement that goes beyond mere time of experience or practice. The study’s authors noted that the difference between the amateur and the [...]