Maximize Your Investment: 10 Key Strategies for Effective Packaged Software Implementations
The Silo Approach is Alive and Well
Ten principles for implementing a business solution
How to focus on business results during an implementation
Invest in Your Implementation Partners
What to expect from your implementation partner
Enable the Customer to Lead During the Implementation
Enabling the customer to lead is a process
Enablement requires different leadership styles
Perform Business Solution Modeling
Defining prototyping and business solution modeling
Conducting Business solution modeling
Recommendations for conducting Business solution modeling
Value proposition for Business solution modeling
Challenges with business solution modeling
Determining the Correct Implementation Approach
Who is the leader — Business or IT?
Disciplines used in a Business solution implementation
Selecting the correct methodology
Applying methodologies for COTS implementations
Implement to the Current Business Maturity Level
To customize or not to customize
Understanding Business solution maturity
Best Practice — Implement to the current maturity level
Minimizing Customizations and Maximizing Enhancements
Requirements management revisited
Value-added requirements management
Challenges and risks with valued-added requirements management
Trickle down acceptance falls short
Developing an effective negotiation strategy
Have a Business Solution Architect
Perspectives of a Business solution
Who is covering business processes?
Solution - Business Solution Architect
Best practices for identifying conflicts
Accelerate Decisions by Generating More Knowledge and Less Information
Traditional information gathering approach
Decision-oriented information gathering
Effective knowledge generation
Traditional approaches fall short
Understanding packaged software advantages and challenges