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The People Factor: Accelerating Supply Chain Transformation Through Education (8 Pages)
by Sree Hameed and Marc Escande
Jul 31, 2004 Abstract : This article summarizes the findings from a study of why customers failed to attain the full value potential of their SCM projects. Most SCM projects continue to focus much of their energy on technology implementations and simply pay lip service to end-user training and executive alignment. Learn the pitfalls causing SCM project failures and how to avoid them.
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Software Selection: A Third Alternative Part Two: Seller's Perspective and the Third Alternative (4 Pages)
by Joseph J. Strub
May 16, 2005 Abstract : Failed projects do not bode well for the vendor. It can cause their sales cycle costs only to rise even more and their reputation to suffer or, at least, become suspect. Surely, the consequences can be much more severe for the client where an incorrect software selection can lead to business losses. Accordingly, it is in everyone's best interest to select the right enterprise software and do it economically but with confidence.
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Software Selection: A Third Alternative Part Two: Seller's Perspective and the Third Alternative (4 Pages)
by Joseph J. Strub
Aug 24, 2004 Abstract : Failed projects do not bode well for the vendor. It can cause their sales cycle costs only to rise even more and their reputation to suffer or, at least, become suspect. Surely, the consequences can be much more severe for the client where an incorrect software selection can lead to business losses. Accordingly, it is in everyone's best interest to select the right enterprise software and do it economically but with confidence.
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Project Portfolio Management for New Product Development: Tracking the Project Cycle from Idea to Launch (4 Pages)
by Neil Stolovitsky
Jan 6, 2006 Abstract : Resource allocation and phase-based processes are key features to consider when selecting a project portfolio management solution for new product development (NPD) projects. More importantly, NPD projects demand a best practices framework, like Stage-Gate®, for their success.
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Project Failure—The Numbers, Why, and What It Means (3 Pages)
by Jim Brown & Olin Thompson
Jun 11, 2005 Abstract : IT projects fail regularly—considerably missing expectations, drastically overrunning budgets, significantly missing deadlines, and far too often having to be abandoned entirely. Research shows us that this is the rule, not the exception. Research also tells us why.
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Project Failure -- The Numbers, Why and What It Means (3 Pages)
by Jim Brown and Olin Thompson
Sep 20, 2004 Abstract : IT projects fail regularly--considerably missing expectations, drastically overrunning budgets, significantly missing deadlines, and far too often having to be abandoned entirely. Research shows us that this is the rule, not the exception. Research also tells us why. What is the impact of failure on enterprises, IT professionals and software and services providers? Does it have to be this way?
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Driving the Change Agenda through a Low Overhead Program Office (5 Pages)
by J. Diezemann
Apr 20, 2000 Abstract : You are your Projects! They maintain your corporate vitality. A Program Office can significantly contribute to strategy realization by ensuring that the right projects are launched in the right manner, at the right time, for the right reasons.
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Getting Strategic Planning and Financial Planning in the Same Bailiwick (10 Pages)
by John Diezemann
Oct 1, 1999 Abstract : To provide useful financial insight on projects, financial managers need to think about business strategy more like a series of options than a single projected cash flow. While the concepts of options are certainly familiar to most executives, the trick to valuing strategic choices lies in the complex and often overwhelming task of understanding the interaction between strategic options. This article provides a breakthrough planning approach for (1) rapidly realizing the business capabilities dictated by strategy (2) aligning process, technology and organization design and (3) through the financial lens of 'real options' shows how to quan
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The PLM Program An Incremental Approach to the Strategic Value of PLM (5 Pages)
by Jim Brown
Dec 21, 2003 Abstract : Companies that took an early adopter approach to PLM are beginning to show significant reductions in new product introduction lead times and to benefit from meaningful cost savings by executing a series of focused, high return projects
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