Your ERP Program Has Five Dimensions. Most Steering Committees Watch One. What you're monitoring, what you're missing, and why the gap between them is where programs go wrong. You get a status report every fortnight. It tells you the program is on track. Milestones...
Your ERP Project Is Green. The dashboard says everything is on track. Scope — controlled. Budget — within tolerance. Timeline — amber at worst, green most weeks. The steering committee gets its report. The sponsor nods. The project moves forward. What could go wrong?...
You Are Not Paying for Your ERP Program You are paying for your reluctance to make hard calls inside it- The cost of drift. Most executives assume the cost of a struggling technology program is the number on the variance report — the budget overrun that needs...
Change Starts With Belief On the surface, we think people act because of pain and pleasure. We avoid pain. We seek comfort. We look for safety, recognition, certainty and control. In organisations, this is easy to see. People avoid difficult conversations. They hold...
Play vs. Competition The confusion most of us carry — and the cost we don't see Most of us are more tired than the work justifies. The hours are long, yes. The decisions are hard, yes. But if we're honest, a lot of the exhaustion isn't coming from the work...
The Wrong Definition of Power Is Costing You Most of us are chasing the wrong thing. We call it power. What we mean is: the ability to get what we want — from people, from systems, from circumstances. A better title. A bigger budget. A yes when we need one. That's not...
The Question Your Vendor Will Never Ask You Most technology programs begin with the wrong assumption. Here's how to find out if yours has. Before a single contract is signed, before a vendor is selected, before a project team is formed — there is one question that...
You Have a Choice — and Most Sponsors Don't Know It Let me be honest with you. Not corporate-honest, where everything is framed as an opportunity. Actually honest. You became an ERP project sponsor because someone decided you were senior enough, influential enough,...