John Masley, KPMG Management Consulting, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory Buyers of outsourced enterprise services–especially those with big hearts who want to do the right things for the right reasons–often ask us if financially incentivizing their service provider when it exceeds SLAs helps foster the partnership. In most cases, I recommend against it. Why? SLAs [...]

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Elizabeth Newman, Senior Advisor, KPMG Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory ERP systems have the potential to deliver significant cost savings, productivity boosts and efficiency gains to public sector organizations. But their implementation is fraught with complex technological challenges, are highly disruptive in how core business processes are conducted, and are highly prone to timeline extensions [...]

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Stan Lepeak, Managing Director, Global Research For too many end-user organizations adopting or expanding commercial enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, the implementation process can look too much the like current oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. While not to make light of the spill, ERP implementation efforts are too often out of control, seemingly [...]

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Robert G. Jacobs II, Senior Advisor, EquaTerra Enterprise Systems Practice If your legacy business applications are more than 10 years old and require multiple entries of identical data, you should consider taking advantage of newer functionality. Disparate applications with business unit-level data synchronization or reliance on non-integrated desktop applications, such as spreadsheets and simple databases, [...]

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