Return to the previous Payment Process and I.T. platform ASAP and shut down PHOENIX. Establish Single Federal Payment Function (organization) Head and Owner. Appoint Payment Function Heads and Payment Process Owners in relevant institutions. – Have them REDEFINE the Payment Process problem. – Have them AGREE on a new Common Payment Process. Prepare RFP for potential Payment […]
80,000 federal government employees are suffering the consequences of a disastrous implementation of a PHOENIX Payment System. It is a very serious BUSINESS problem. Conservative government, system software and training are quoted as potential causes to general public – traditional, hasty, ignorant, unprofessional, politically motivated, but convenient explanations. Useless PHOENIX is a consequence of a much larger very serious problem […]
Because they are “IT” Projects – conceived and managed by IT In my experience this usually happens, when: 1. Business care less about IT and do not know how to manage it professionally 2. IT care less about the Business and do not understand it 3. Business and IT are two volunteers-divorcees, forced to coexist behind the Berlin Wall, willingly […]
Management Consulting generally prospers as a result of a mix of: Business leadership’s inability and fear to take responsibility for it’s own decisions Business leadership’s professional incompetence Management Consulting domineering role in strategic and financial decisions making process is a Consequence of a poor Business Management – Consulting is their costly and voluntary Victim and a […]
….non-existing/broken business and IT relationships (Berlin Walls); politically motivated IT investment decisions; IT agnostic business managers and business agnostic IT managers; IT strategies, disconnected from the business; unjustified heavy-duty IT systems purchases; IT/consultant-driven management decisions and projects; “preferred” vendors and suppliers; fully accomodating and ready-t0-cater for pay consultants; systems/applications orphans; data and server cemeteries; endless implementations; meaningless hardware and software […]
Planning a heavy duty ERP (SAP, Oracle, Peoplesoft..) acquisition ? Why do you need ERP in the first place? What is the business problem you are trying to solve? Have you clearly defined it? Have you considered other solutions to your business problem? How will implementing ERP solve this problem? What competitive advantage are you going to gain and […]
The German one is history. The one, separating Business and IT is reality.
Business Strategy = IT Strategy. The opposite is false. A well designed and thought through business strategy will clearly define the application of technology in achieving business objectives.
