Dave Brown, Principal, Advisory Services When you established your IT outsourcing agreement, you probably did the deal and put it in a drawer, so it may have been a few years since you’ve thought about IT contracts. But now that your contract is coming up for renewal, how can you make the most of the [...]
Elizabeth Newman, Senior Advisor, 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 and [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
