“SAP is just a piece of software.” — If this sounds familiar, this book is for you. Learn from bestselling author Michael Doane what it means to implement SAP, and how SAP will change your business forever. Benefit from his advice on how to prepare your organization for the transition: How to assess your “SAP maturity,” how to instill the necessary mindset, and how to build a Center of Excellence for continuous Business/IT alignment. Countless managers were poorly prepared for the challenge—don’t become one of them!
Highlights include:
What is SAP?
Challenges in SAP projects
Assessing an organization‘s readiness for SAP
SAP project and system life-cycle
Post-implementation pitfalls
Center of Excellence
Measuring business benefits
Selecting and managing external consultants
Management and end-user training
SAP: what it is, how it works, and what it costs
Apply best practices to implementation planning and avoid common pitfalls
Gain maximum benefits, manage change, and learn how to thrive after go-live
Michael Doane
Michael Doane has 35 years of business and information systems experience, including 12 years of industry, 16 years in enterprise application consulting and six years as an industry analyst.
Since 2001, he has been advising clients on strategies, implementation and integration strategies, service provider selection and management, and best practices and methods for deriving value from enterprise applications investments.
Michael Doane has been publishing information about SAP since 1996.
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