Maximize Your Investment: 10 Key Strategies for Effective Packaged Software Implementations
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Maximize Your Investment: 10 Key Strategies for Effective Packaged Software Implementations
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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
Free Chapter
The Silo Approach is Alive and Well
Focus on Business Results
Invest in Your Implementation Partners
Enable the Customer to Lead During the Implementation
Perform Business Solution Modeling
Determining the Correct Implementation Approach
Implement to the Current Business Maturity Level
Minimizing Customizations and Maximizing Enhancements
Negotiate for Success
Have a Business Solution Architect
Accelerate Decisions by Generating More Knowledge and Less Information
Changing the Game
Summary of Challenges
Customer Reviews