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There is Life after the SAP Go Live
There is Life after the SAP Go Live

There is Life after the SAP Go Live

By Bill Wood|June 25th, 2012|

One of the areas that academic literature, consulting firms, and most system integrators rarely address is the organizational acceptance, full use, and assimilation of the SAP package. To the extent the system integrators or consulting firms do mention post production support, they generally only do so in the context of managed services or outsourcing. They do little to help companies develop a thriving production environment with your own resources. One of the biggest problems I see anywhere i [...]

3 Development Phases for SAP Center of Excellence Maturity
3 Development Phases for SAP Center of Excellence Maturity

3 Development Phases for SAP Center of Excellence Maturity

By Bill Wood|May 14th, 2012|

Before we get into the substance of how to build a next-generation IT organization that is integrated with business, we need to take a quick review. Last week’s post on SAP Service Provider to Business Peer Through Center of Excellence Maturity proposed the direct maturity of the SAP IT organization. Here, we discussed the three stages of Organizational Change Management Inside the SAP IT Support Organization. These stages create clear distinctions between SAP Service Delivery versus Value Deli [...]

SAP Customer Responsibility for SAP Project Success
SAP Customer Responsibility for SAP Project Success

SAP Customer Responsibility for SAP Project Success

By Bill Wood|April 23rd, 2012|

Some time ago, I put together a synthesis of SAP success criteria based on academic literature and my own personal experience. The table below is part of the list of SAP Success Factors for Vender Selection – Responsibility Matrix. For a more detailed explanation of each of the vendor-related items, see the posts listed in the Series on SAP ERP Project Success Factors. In the prior series, we went through SAP success factors with shared responsibilities between the company adopting the SAP appl [...]

Organizational Change Management Inside the SAP IT Support Organization
Organizational Change Management Inside the SAP IT Support Organization

Organizational Change Management Inside the SAP IT Support Organization

By Bill Wood|April 2nd, 2012|

The last few weeks have focused on the path for IT leaders to become strategic business partners. Academic research shows that to gain Sustained Business Value from SAP Business Software, you must focus technology implementation efforts on business benefits. This includes using metrics to determine if business goals were achieved by the software implementation effort. Achieving Business Value from SAP Investment was about case studies that evaluated organizations with a business benefits approa [...]

How To Navigate the SAP Business Transformation Journey
How To Navigate the SAP Business Transformation Journey

How To Navigate the SAP Business Transformation Journey

By Bill Wood|March 19th, 2012|

One driver for this continuing Series on SAP Competency Center or SAP Center of Excellence is the desire for so many senior IT leaders to become future-state business strategist CIOs. The last post provided the introduction of SAP Enabled Business Transformation for IT Leadership, a key requirement for senior IT leaders to become strategic business peers. Additionally, that post introduced the three key milestones on the journey to the future-state business strategist IT leader-- especially if [...]

Why Use the SAP ASAP Methodology?
Why Use the SAP ASAP Methodology?

Why Use the SAP ASAP Methodology?

By Bill Wood|January 16th, 2012|

ASAP Methodology Background In the mid 1990’s, SAP had gained significant bad press and publicity around several high-profile project disasters that the company knew were completely avoidable. At that time Oracle, Baan, JD Edwards, and PeopleSoft all had salespeople making the case that SAP was too expensive, too complicated, and too time-consuming to implement. In response, SAP released the ASAP Methodology in the mid-late 90’s (around 1996 or 1997). R&D resources and efforts have since re [...]