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Your Guide to Mitigating Change Management Delays
A McKinsey study of over 5,400 large IT projects found that they run an average of 45% over budget and deliver 56% less value than predicted. The budget overruns make headlines. The value gap is the quieter, more expensive problem. And in most cases, that gap traces back to the same place: change management that
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ERP Failure Starts at the Top: Fixing Executive Misalignment
Gartner predicts that by 2027, more than 70% of recently implemented ERP initiatives will fail to meet their original business case goals fully, and as many as 25% will fail catastrophically (Gartner ERP Research). The software keeps getting better. The tools keep getting better. Implementation Methods and consulting approaches keep getting better. Yet, the failure
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The Case for Phase 0 and Version 0 in SAP Programs
Why replacing late discovery with early truth is the most important decision in your SAP transformation ERP Transformations run into the same challenging patterns. Teams spend months designing on paper, stakeholders sign off on blueprints, and well into the Build phase, the real system slowly appears. Much of what was agreed to turns out to
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Why SAP Transformation Programs Discover Problems Too Late
And What It Costs to Fix Them After Commitments Are Locked The pattern every SAP leader recognizes For months, the transformation has looked stable. Design workshops generate detailed process diagrams. Requirements fill hundreds of pages. Budgets get approved. Status dashboards show green. Then the system appears. Processes behave differently than expected. Integrations fail in ways
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Governance in SAP Transformation: From Dependency to Control
Many SAP programs go live successfully, but leave the company dependent on external help to change the system. This is often because, during the implementation or upgrade, not enough was done to upskill the internal resources. The software works, and the processes run, but when something needs to change, the internal team often turns back
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Davos 2026 Warned About “Cognitive Atrophy.”
Based on “Beyond Davos Hype: Real-World AI Challenges and their impact on SAP” – A LinkedIn Live Panel by LeapGreat. If AI Does the Junior Work, Who Leads Your SAP Transformation in 10 Years? AI can generate an S/4HANA business case in seconds. It cannot lead a steering committee. It cannot align finance and operations.
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Make SAP Transformation Governable Before You Commit Capital
Why 2027 Is Not a Deadline Problem — It’s a Sequence Problem Most SAP programs do not unravel because organizations lack funding or intelligence. They lose stability because the traditional implementation sequence delays reality. In a conventional program, months are spent in workshops producing requirements decks, architecture diagrams, and carefully worded design documents. The plan
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Don’t Rent Your SAP Transformation. Own It.
By Bob Cummings Do you feel like the standard for ERP implementation is complexity, uncertainty, and forces enterprises to outsource critical decisions? Is it time to start taking control? If you are an executive currently planning or navigating an SAP S/4HANA transformation, or perhaps recovering from a stalled one, you likely feel a sense of
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Technical Debt: The Hidden Financial Burden CFOs Must Address Now
Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) are now responsible for more than oversight. They are directly accountable for technology decisions that affect enterprise risk. One of the most expensive blind spots is technical debt. In SAP transformations, technical debt is not just leftover code. It increases operating costs, delays execution, and creates long-term dependence on external vendors.
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With SAP S/4HANA, I confess, I feel a little sad when I hear ’Brownfield’
by Robert Cummings IntroductionBrownfield upgrades in SAP S/4HANA involve updating existing systems to the new platform without major changes to business processes. While this approach can be cost-effective and less disruptive in the short term, it often misses the opportunity to leverage new capabilities that SAP S/4HANA offers, such as real-time analytics and improved user
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