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Maximize Your Investment: 10 Key Strategies for Effective Packaged Software Implementations

By : Grady Brett Beaubouef
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Maximize Your Investment: 10 Key Strategies for Effective Packaged Software Implementations

By: Grady Brett Beaubouef

Overview of this book

Using packaged software for Customer Relationship Management or Enterprise Resource Planning is often seen as a sure-fire way to reduce costs, refocus scarce resources, and increase returns on investment. However, research shows that the majority of packaged or Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) implementations fail to provide this value due to the implementation approach taken. Authored by Grady Brett Beaubouef, who has over fifteen years of packaged software implementation experience, this book will help you define an effective implementation strategy for your packaged software investment. The book focuses on Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) implementations, and helps you to successfully implement packaged software. Using a step-by-step approach, it begins with an assessment of the limitations of current implementation methods for packaged software. It then helps you to analyze your requirements and offers 10 must-know principles gleaned from real-world packaged software implementations. These 10 principles cover how to maximize enhancements and minimize customizations, focus on business results, and negotiate for success, and so on. You will learn how to best leverage these principles as part of your implementation. As you progress through the book, you will learn how to put packaged software into action with forethought, planning, and proper execution. Doing so will lead to reductions in implementation costs, customizations, and development time.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Maximize Your Investment: 10 Key Strategies for Effective Packaged Software Implementations
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface
Summary of Challenges

Value proposition for Business solution modeling


This section outlines are the key benefits of conducting business modeling.

Provides a working proof of concept

Use business solution modeling as a demonstration to executive management, business owners, and strategic users that can promote and generate user acceptance earlier in the implementation lifecycle. Be able to provide to executive management and business owners with hard evidence (results) of how the new enterprise business solution will support their organization.

Business solution modeling provides a working model that the project team can present to, and that can help you to appropriately set the expectations of, these groups, instead of having gossip and hearsay set the expectations. Remember that any COTS implementation will be a highly-visible project and must produce visible results quickly. "The longer a team, large or small, goes without delivering an integrated product to a review process, the greater the potential for failure...