Establishing Source to Pay content goals is critical to benefits realization when implementing a Source to Pay system. As system usage is largely correlated with content, this needs to be something you think about up front. As an example, one of the assumptions behind benefits realization for a purchasing/buying module is that once you on-board […]
Whenever I read, I’m always trying to mine “knowledge nuggets” for additions into my collection of business transformation guiding principles. Recently, while re-reading Tribe of Mentors, I stumbled upon what is one of my new favorite business quotes. It is a seemingly innocuous comment by Temple Grandin during an interview for the book. It goes […]
I have a problem with the often-used expression: best practices. Phew… There I said it. I’ve been holding that in for a while… But why you ask? The definition of Best practice is: Noun. Commercial or professional procedures that are accepted or prescribed as being correct or most effective. Oxford Dictionary On the other hand, […]
Having now been involved in a dozen system implementations, I believe that defining guiding principles for your IT initiatives is “necessary but not sufficient”. Guiding principles are a set of heuristics that guide organizational decision making in a common direction. However, if defined during a one-off activity at the outset of a project they will […]
With every Cloud, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product implementation, you inevitably get to a point where you need to ask yourself the question: “How will we support this new system after it is built and deployed?”. This is as true in cloud procurement system implementations (Ariba, Coupa, Ivalua, etc) as it is for any other cloud solution […]