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Help – My Project Sponsor Is A No Show

“We’ll just hold on a few minutes because I’m expecting the project sponsor to come to this meeting,” said one of my colleagues. I was at his meeting because I was contributing to the project and had been invited along to discuss how my department could…
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How to Improve Your Project Meetings

“Right, what do we need to talk about today?” asked a fellow project manager of her team. She was running a project status meeting and I was sitting in as a subject matter expert. Her team looked blank, but eventually the updates and problems starting pouring…
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How Lean is Your ERP Implementation?

When we work with smaller to mid-size organizations – especially clients in the manufacturing and distribution space – we find a lower tolerance for overly complicated ERP software selection or implementation processes. Indeed, executives at these no-nonsense, meat-and-potato types of organizations built and grew their companies…
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Who Needs Help Managing an ERP Implementation?

Managing an ERP implementation is tricky business. Most organizations who set out on this journey aren’t experienced at managing a transformation of this magnitude and complexity and aren’t even sure where to begin. The first step is to recognize this fact and to understand that establishing…