Comments on: Business Technology is not about Technology http://www.dennisstevens.com/2009/01/09/business-technology-is-not-about-technology/ Enabling the Agile Enterprise Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:40:44 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jim Benson http://www.dennisstevens.com/2009/01/09/business-technology-is-not-about-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-183 Jim Benson Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:46:24 +0000 http://www.dennisstevens.com/?p=37#comment-183 I couldn't agree more. I know a mid-sized company that spent months trying to enact an ERP simply because they thought they needed it to keep up with their peers. The consultants they hired talked about the technology to the exclusion of everything else. The consultants were sold on "integration." To their credit, the company finally told them to get lost. The sad part, the elements of a new ERP that they did need they now will not get. They recognized that most of the system wasn't giving them value - but didn't go off and get someone to implement the areas that would give them value. They killed it all because they couldn't distinguish the waste from the value. I couldn’t agree more. I know a mid-sized company that spent months trying to enact an ERP simply because they thought they needed it to keep up with their peers.

The consultants they hired talked about the technology to the exclusion of everything else. The consultants were sold on “integration.”

To their credit, the company finally told them to get lost.

The sad part, the elements of a new ERP that they did need they now will not get. They recognized that most of the system wasn’t giving them value – but didn’t go off and get someone to implement the areas that would give them value.

They killed it all because they couldn’t distinguish the waste from the value.

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