Eight Best Practices for Planning Your Microsoft Dynamics ERP Project—And Staying Focused on the Big Picture

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ERP implementation projects are invariably more complicated than executives expect. For that reason, it's easy to get bogged down in endless detail and decisions around the implementation process. It's essential to remain focused on the big picture. As you start to plan your new ERP implementation project, consider these Eight Best Practices for IT strategic planning.

1. Business Driven, IT Enabled

Successful IT programs are sponsored and fully endorsed by the business, and focus on business results - they are not just one-time IT projects or mere technology decisions. The relevant business stakeholders (including the CFO) should drive the requirements - not IT. CFOs should not and cannot simply defer decisions to their IT staf...

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