If you had the opportunity to reduce implementation risk and be able to generate business value faster, would you do it? Reducing risk and accelerating business value are the underlying drivers for implementing to the current business process maturity level.
One of the most critical areas that is extremely hard to manage is organizational impact. Implementing at the current business process maturity level helps to minimize the organizational impact. Implementing at the current business process maturity level also assists in limiting the impact to the customer's value chain network (business partners, suppliers, joint ventures, and so on).
Customers naturally look to address the maximum set of requirements they can implement given their investment (i.e., get the most bang for their buck). The challenge to all of us who call ourselves IT and Implementation Partners must be to act as business solution advisors and develop the correct mix of people, processes, and technology to develop...