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Carving out a new company, aka “Just Add Water”
Earlier this month, our Google Alerts picked up a press release praising our role in a recent carve-out project. It was a nice surprise for us, and has generated some inquiries about our role. In this...
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Product-based Solutions Versus Custom Solutions : Tomb Raider or Genesis?
The Product-based Solution is where most of Corporate America is going for IT today. The talent required to povide a successful implementation (one you actually renew license maintenance on rather...
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How does your company handle major change?
Although many large technology initiatives fail because an inadequate or inefficient change management framework, many companies still lack a consistent approach in supporting their employees and...
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Open a Portal – Close the Sale: Why Manufacturers Create Sales Portals
In today’s world of social media, successful sales and marketing in manufacturing is a complex balancing act requiring more and more visibility to actual data. Real-time visibility to dealers, agents,...
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Is ERP Success Really Such a Secret?
ERP isn’t just big business, it’s huge business, projected by those who know to break $50 billion yearly by 2015 in software sales, maintenance, development, and services. Thousands and thousands of...
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Redefining Success in People Terms
I suggested in my previous post that unmet business benefits, make ERP initiatives fail even when they are on-time, on-budget, and on-scope. If we spoke previously about failure, then let’s start here...
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Landscape of ERP Pitfalls – New Map Discovered!
One of our young, and deeply curious, co-workers discovered an artifact – a map – while browsing a dusty, old book store in Boston. She bought it for a pittance and took it home where she discovered...
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The Vale of False Best Practices
What is a best practice and why you should and sometimes should not accept them. The way ERP vendors speak about “best practices,” you would expect accompaniment from a bell choir and a sonorous,...
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Don’t let a recall become a social media storm!
With food recalls increasing and averaging one a day over at the FDA website, and a steady trickle of consumer product safety recalls as well, it’s mind boggling that so many CPG companies are handling...
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Wise up! Grow up!
OK. I am more than a little weird. I find valuable change management lessons from varied sources like the animal kingdom, daredevil cyclists, the great American roadtrip, and I hang out with people who...
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Total Recall: The True Cost of Foodborne Illness
All eyes are on Tyson this week after their recall of chicken nuggets with a trace of plastics. Unfortunately, it’s not just the makers of highly processed foods that are struggling with recalls right...
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Diagnose Your Inefficiency Potholes
Many employees tend to complain about work-related inefficiencies as much as Wisconsinites bemoan the craters (aka potholes) left in the roads each winter. In response, companies usually acknowledge...
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