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Mike O’Dell

Enterprise Architecture – The Value of Doing it Up Front

In today’s business landscape, the importance of having a solid enterprise architecture cannot be underestimated. Enterprise architecture (EA) provides a framework for how an organization’s IT systems, i.e. the people, process and technology, should work together to achieve the company’s business goals. A well-designed EA can help an organization avoid…
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SAP Consulting Rates

Many factors contribute to high SAP consulting rates. For one, the market for SAP consultants is quite competitive. There are a limited number of individuals with the skills and experience necessary to effectively implement and manage an SAP system. As a result, demand for their services is high, and companies…
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Technology Negotiations are Still Hard

Technology negotiations are different from other business deals and this has not changed much in spite of the increased digital literacy of our business colleagues.  As Lawrence Susskind wrote in a 2006 Harvard Business Review article, four problems routinely crop up in digital technology negotiations that are not as likely…
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Crossroads of Control vs. Digital cont.

In my last post, Crossroads of Control vs. Digital, I said would discuss the next logical questions for an IT leader.  The first of which is “How do you embrace this “new world order” without having everyone in the business do their own thing, with little consideration for overall company mission…
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Crossroads of Control vs Power

“The technology for digital business is stateless and loosely-coupled, not stateful and closely-coupled like IT.”  This quote from Andy Mulholland, VP & Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, caught my attention because it captures a paradigm shift that most IT leaders struggle to embrace.   There is a sense of security in…
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Well Done, Woodgrain!

We enjoyed reading about Woodgrain’s continued success with the Transportation Management solution we helped them implement and how that solution is helping them manage their current growth spurt! SAP News Article – Woodgrain Millwork: Delivering the Poetry of Architecture by the Truckload You can watch videos about their use of…
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Why CIOs Get (Deserve?) A Bad Rep

In the last few weeks, I’ve seen several articles about the challenges with and for CIOs: How CIOs are the obstacle to the missions of business executives; how CIOs and CMOs need to learn to work together; and even articles asking ‘Whose business is IT?’.  Examples include these posts by Michael Krigsman: “CIO…
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SAP Transportation Management 9: Early to the Party!

The BestXperts team appreciated the challenge from Woodgrain Millwork to not only guide them through a full rework of their Distribution processes and systems but to make the very new SAP Transportation Management (TM) 9 the hub of that solution. After months of site visits, planning and design sessions, coaching of the Woodgrain IT…
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