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E-Commerce Lesson: Success Gets a Yawn, Failure Takes a Beating

by D. Geller ... a Yawn, Failure Takes a Beating D. Geller - September 15th, 1999 Event Summary. With the Internet quickly shaping up as the major battleground in the ERP arena ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/eCommerce/1999/09/news_analysis/NA_EC_DPG_9_15_99_1.asp - 5k - 1999-09-15 Summary: ERP giant SAP Aktiengesellschaft announced full details of its Internet strategy. Consumer electronics giant Best Buy announced 2Q earnings rise of 34 percent, but delays Internet launch.

Four Ways to Botch Your ERP Implementation Process

by Jeff Kugler ... Another way that failure to appreciate the strategic importance of the implementation manifests ... to do his or her job, and has to implement this ERP package on ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2008/02/research_notes/TU_ER_XJK_02_13_08_1.asp - 18k - 2008-02-13 Summary: Here are four worst practices that can contribute to the failure of an enterprise resource planning implementation—or the implementation of any other enterprise software, for that matter. Protect your investment and prevent disaster by steering clear of these major mistakes.

Four Ways to Botch Your ERP Implementation Process

by Jeff Kugler ... Another way that failure to appreciate the strategic importance of the implementation manifests ... to do his or her job, and has to implement this ERP package on ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2008/05/research_notes/TU_ER_XJK_05_26_08_1.asp - 17k - 2008-05-26 Summary: Here are four worst practices that can contribute to the failure of an enterprise resource planning implementation—or the implementation of any other enterprise software, for that matter. Protect your investment and prevent disaster by steering clear of these major mistakes.

Project Failure—The Numbers, Why, and What It Means

by Jim Brown & Olin Thompson ... must effectively communicate those things that reduce the odds of failure. ... such as product lifecycle management, supply chain management, and ERP to improve ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ExecutiveView/2005/06/research_notes/MI_EV_XJB_06_11_05_1.asp - 15k - 2005-06-11 Summary: IT projects fail regularly—considerably missing expectations, drastically overrunning budgets, significantly missing deadlines, and far too often having to be abandoned entirely. Research shows us that this is the rule, not the exception. Research also tells us why.

Find The Software’s Fatal Flaws To Avoid Failure

by Olin Thompson ... ÿþ Find The Software's Fatal Flaws To Avoid Failure Featured Author - Olin Thompson - October 30 ... that claim to serve a specific need (SCM, CRM, ERP, etc.) do ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ExecutiveView/2002/10/research_notes/MI_EV_XOT_10_30_02_1.asp - 12k - 2002-10-30 Summary: For any business, software needs exist which will prove difficult to satisfy. Application packages will have fatal flaws where they do not meet these needs. When evaluating software, start with the potential fatal flaws and continually look at the details surrounding them.

Find the Software's Fatal Flaws to Avoid Failure

by Olin Thompson ... ÿþ Find the Software's Fatal Flaws to Avoid Failure Featured Author - Olin Thompson - September 6 ... that claim to serve a specific need (SCM, CRM, ERP, etc.) do ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ExecutiveView/2004/09/research_notes/MI_EV_XOT_09_06_04_1.asp - 13k - 2004-09-06 Summary: For any business, software needs exist which will prove difficult to satisfy. Application packages will have fatal flaws where they do not meet these needs. When evaluating software, start with the potential fatal flaws and continually look at the details surrounding them.

Business Software Firms Sued Over Implementation - Lawsuits Bring ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Upon ERP project failure, consulting firms' assertion that clients' expectations differ from those originally agreed upon is often a poor cover-up for larger ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/1999/11/news_analysis/NA_BA_PJ_11_10_99_1.asp - 5k - 1999-11-10 Summary: Although glitch-plagued software implementations are nothing new, the growing number of brand-name firms reporting big troubles with their multimillion-dollar projects is starting to look like a Who's Who of the Fortune 500.

Who to Blame for Project Failure? Look Up - Not Down, Not Left ...

by Olin Thompson ... Failure can be many things and the definition is what the people involved think ... Olin Thompson, a principal of Process ERP Partners and co-founder of the Chem ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ExecutiveView/2002/09/research_notes/TU_EV_XOT_09_20_02_1.asp - 14k - 2002-09-20 Summary: Projects do fail. They fail from many different reasons. But the person at the top of the organization can stop or fix most of these problems before they derail the project. That person is the only one with the power to do so.

Who to Blame for Project Failure? Look Up—Not Down, Not Left ...

by Olin Thompson ... Failure can be many things, and the definition is what the people ... TEC's newsletter, providing articles on enterprise resource planning (ERP) and manufacturing ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ExecutiveView/2008/07/research_notes/TU_EV_PR_XOT_07_25_08_1.asp - 12k - 2008-07-25 Summary: Project failure is not a nice topic. None of us wants to be involved in a failure. But when a failure occurs, we feel compelled to assign blame. But who really is to blame, and how can a company avoid the same problems in the future?

CMMS Templates for Effective Implementations Part Two: The CMMS ...

by Daryl Mather ... This is further given credibility by recent moves of major ERP producers to ... these factors and distinctions, leading even further towards the failure of systems ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ExecutiveView/2003/04/research_notes/MI_EV_XDM_04_02_03_1.asp - 18k - 2003-04-02 Summary: The implementation of an enterprise level system is a tumultuous event with far reaching consequences throughout an organization. Therefore we can see the implementation process as a means of taking the quantum leap in maintenance management techniques.