Enterprise Software Strategic Planning
The Problem and Opportunity
At most companies, operations management would admit that business software could better support business processes. But what improvement actions are prudent? Can existing business software be further improved? Or are there enough deficiencies to defend implementing new enterprise software? Or should a company just hold tight? Or is the solution in some combination of these choices? Without the confidence of a well crafted strategic plan for business software, companies tend to react to problems and let these events ineffectively drive business software change.
Developing this Important Plan
Engleman Associates, Inc. offers a process to develop a realistic and defensible go-forward enterprise software strategy. Our ability to conduct this work is based on over 1900 enterprise software projects and related knowledge of enterprise business software and realistic objectives for a specific business. The general steps used to accomplish this planning are:
- Determine priorities for business process areas under review and develop a project-specific statement of other decision influencers such as the cost of a particular business system improvement strategy.
- Understand your business’s direction for the foreseeable future, business process problems and priorities, and aptitude for business software improvements.
- Evaluate the strength of your company’s current enterprise software and collateral business software to support business processes under review.
- Develop an opinion about the value of updating, augmenting, or replacing current ERP software (and collateral business software) based on the cost and risk of potential improvement actions.
- Combine the findings of steps 1 to 3 into an enterprise software strategic plan for the company to further consider and take action upon over time.
The deployment of this process is company specific, so please call to discuss your particular situation.