SAP Outsourcing Part 2 – The cost of Crap

March 1, 2007

Provocative title. I want to make a significant point. Outsourcing, if handled incorrectly, can produce crap.
Let me give you 2 examples.
Example 1
Business Scenario:
All European orders were shipped out of a separate distribution company in Germany. This company was not on SAP and used an older legacy system. We had to find a way of transmitting [...]

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Testing – The missing key to your successful SAP Implementation

February 21, 2007

If there is one key to a successful implementation, it is simply this:
TESTING !!!
Duh. Well that’s obvious. Well if it’s that obvious, why do so many implementations fail to do a decent job of it? It just amazes me, the number of times that I am standing behind a user doing go live support, and something [...]

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7 Secrets to getting your EMail opened and read

February 20, 2007

This is something that has always bugged me on SAP Projects. You send somebody an important email, or reply to an email, only to discover several days later, that they never bothered to open it. How do you get them to open your email?
I decided to start observing myself. I get about 100 email’s a [...]

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Productivity and Thinking on Paper – A key to your success?

February 7, 2007

How Productive are you? Or, phrased differently, how much time did you spend today advancing towards your primary goals?
About a year ago, John Reese (a famous Internet marketer), wrote an article about getting away from your computer and thinking on paper (or a clip board or a white board). He argued that this was a [...]

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SAP Outsourcing – Blessing or a Curse in Disguise (Part 1)

February 6, 2007

This is part 1 of a 5 part series.
According to Wikipedia (the largest encyclopedia in the world), outsourcing is the practice of hiring an external organization to perform some business functions in a country other than the one where the product or service will be sold or consumed.
In the last 5 years, outsourcing has been a [...]

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