Maximize Your Investment: 10 Key Strategies for Effective Packaged Software Implementations

Accelerate packaged (COTS) software implementations, increase returns on investment, and reduce implementation costs and customizations

Key Features

• Develop implementation approaches that maximize packaged software advantages and minimize packaged software challenges
• Reduce implementation costs, increase knowledge generation, and reduce non-value-added implementation activities
• Enable customers to lead during the implementation to maximize long term success
• Follow the Ten Essential Principles for implementing a business solution and learn best practices, tips and tricks

Book Description

What you will learn

• Identify factors to consider when selecting and applying a methodology for gathering and validating business requirements for COTS software
• Minimize potential risks and maximize opportunities in your implementations
• Understand the difference between prototyping and modeling, and when they should be used
• Accelerate implementations by generating more knowledge and less information
• Maximize enhancements and minimize non-value-added customizations
• Increase Return On Investment (ROI) by developing a negotiation strategy with partners and users
• Leverage the lessons of knowledge management to assist you in managing the information generated during an implementation

Who this book is for

This book is aimed at enterprise architects, development leads, project managers, business systems analysts, business systems owners, and anyone who wants to implement packaged software effectively. If you are a customer looking to implement COTS software in the future then this book will provide a strategy to maximize your investment. If you are in an internal IT role and you find that your internal software development methodology doesn't quite work for an off-the-shelf business software package then this book will provide you with perspective on how to adjust your approach. If you are an implementation partner looking to minimize the blood, sweat, and tears shed with implementing COTS software then this book will be a guide to filter out obstacles and enable implementation focus.