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Maybe ERPs are the ultimate test of an agile culture. Sounds weird right? But bear with me. Most ERP projects fail. They end up over-budget and delivered reall
by kdeldycke 7y ago
Maybe ERPs are the ultimate test of an agile culture. Sounds weird right? But bear with me.
Most ERP projects fail. They end up over-budget and delivered really late.
Why? They are sold like custom implementations, promising the stakeholders they’ll be adapted to their specific needs. It's rarely the case. The reality requires the whole business to change: its processes, its workflows, its traditions.
Therefore, only companies flexible enough can survive such deep transformations. Companies that are agile.
- commoner 7y agoThat judgment is based on the premise that the processes mandated by the ERP software are more effective than the company's current processes. If a company terminates its adoption of an ERP solution, it does not necessarily mean that the company is not "agile" enough. The company's leadership may simply be concluding that changing its processes to the ones mandated by the ERP would make the company run less efficiently, a consideration that could outweigh the benefits of using a centralized piece of software to manage its operations.
- kdeldycke 7y agoGood point, and thanks for demonstrating how compromise needs to be pondered at the executive level too.