Paul Taylor

When starting a digital transformation, it is best to know why you're doing it. Is moving to the Cloud a means to an end, or an end in itself? Are you trying to impact the bottom line, improve the user experience, or both? As the industry learns real-world lessons about re-platforming in the Cloud era, you’d better have your priorities straight.

Sorry to bring this up, but there is probably a huge ERP project in your future. Whether you move to a SaaS platform or reimplement PeopleSoft to fully modernize, if you want to stay relevant, it’s not a question of “if”, but “when”. How does your organization go about preparing for that? Someone once said that taking an organization through a major ERP project can be like jumping out of an airplane and sewing your parachute on the way down; you just hope you can get enough pieced together before you hit the ground to keep the landing from being… um… disruptive. Won't it be easier (and safer) if your parachute is ready before you board the plane?

We’ll discuss some of the smart things your organization can be doing today so that you’re ready for tomorrow when it comes.

• Design Cloud-proofed business processes that can are not platform-dependent, so they can easily move if you do.
• Automate manual tasks now so your staff has bandwidth to work the next big project.
• Invest in user experience improvements, like chat and role-focused portals, that you can take with you.

Join us for successful strategies that will ensure a soft landing when your next big ERP project comes and allow you to keep innovating in the meantime!