ETS Zone Blog Installing ERP: Learn from Mistakes of Others - It's Cheaper

I have made just about every mistake in installing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software and systems, but I do some research from time to time to see if anyone has invented a new installation mistake so I can avoid it. Mistakes are costly, but the most costly mistakes are those where you learn nothing.So far the same four fundamental mistakes keep showing up and each confirms what I learned from my ERP mistakes. They may be characterized a bit differently in each article and some articles rank the causes by frequency of failures. The common thread to all of them, no matter what the rank, is that FAILURE and the seeds of failure are sown at the beginning of the project - they just show up at the later. Read More »