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Strategic Planning
Agricultural Seed Development and Distribution Company I.T. Department The client was the I.T. Department of a medium size agricultural seed development and distribution company.   I had previously developed a strategic plan for the same I.T. Director when he was with a different organization.  This engagement developed a three year plan that served for five years, dramatically improved performance and resolved a major area of...
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Strategic Planning
In the previous three articles we have shared our strategic planning “secret sauce”, why we are confident that engaging with us for your strategic planning requirements will give you a materially better result than traditional methods.  This process will add substantial value to any organization, no matter what size or what industry, including government and NGO – it is about facilitating knowledgeable leaders to structure...
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Strategic Planning
In the previous posts we have developed the seven critical factors, weighted them and scored them and identified the strategic gaps.  How do we close those gaps and arrive at the Strategic Action Plan? What else can be done? Starting with the largest weighted gap we go through a similar synthesis process to the Critical Factors.  Each delegate privately writes down the no more than...
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ERP Strategic Planning
Following on – why some people think my strategic planning method is “magic”. In Part 1 we have collaboratively developed the seven critical factors.Delegates, prompted by a series of slides, privately weight the seven factors in terms ofrelative importance in delivering the strategic outcome.Results are then captured and are typically all over the place, each team member sees theorganization and its environment differently – this...
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ERP Strategic Planning
I make claims for my Strategic Planning service in terms of speed, quality of outcome, level of buy-in, etcetera that some people find unreal. So, I thought it would be useful to share a bit about my process to answer these questions. Fundamentally collectively the top team have the knowledge and experience to ideate the best solution – in many cases they know what needs...
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Dr James A Robertson, The ERP Doctor, has over thirty years of experience with regard to troubleshooting, turning around and successfully implementing ERP and other business information systems.  He has written widely on the factors giving rise to the 75% plus level of ERP implementation failures and the factors required for successful implementation.

He is a thought leader who regularly challenges conventional wisdom with regard to ERP and has pioneered a range of highly effective methods with regard to high value ERP outcomes.