I have been reviewing ERP implementation proposals recently. It amazes me how few providers take a process driven approach. I want to walk through some approaches and lay out the pros and cons of each. Demo driven Data driven Process driven There are many combinations and different approaches, however these 3 are a good sample…
I have been asking people at networking meetings “What makes you proud of your IT?” Unfortunately most people say that a great day is when they don’t have to think about their IT. This is disappointing, because when I talk to people who have something truly to be proud of from their IT it is…
People Have been asking me a couple of great questions recently. The first is why did you name your company Level 5ive Consulting and the second is what’s up with that logo? Why Level 5ive? Level 5ive is intended to encompass the journey from having IT that is too large to just ignore to the…
In this video I tell a fable of a Chief Chicken Officer Fox in charge of contract chickens. https://youtu.be/qxngR–0YOg While this is an IT guys attempt at humor what is the real reason it is so important to have an independent Virtual IT Executive? Several times in the past week I have been asked what makes Level…
My life is filled with coincidence. Again 2 events drove me to a topic this week. Last week after my Sunday night 90 minutes of catching up on Gotham and The Walking Dead, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was showing on HBO. I watched the last 30 minutes. Monday I attend PONG as usual. One…
Over the weekend I had 2 encounters with Dwight D Eisenhower. One was a quote at a SCORE workshop “Plans are worthless but planning is everything.” The second was a post written by one of the Dudes, Chip Lutz. Here is a link to his post. Those encounters reminded me of my first project management…
It is baseball season and according to some pitching beats hitting every time. In this article I would like to suggest business process beats tool every time. I have been talking to several potential customers in the last few weeks and it surprises me how often tool is the primary driver in IT decisions. In…
Did you know it took JK Rowling 5 years to plan out the books in her Harry Potter series? She did not write one book until that 5 years of planning was finished. There is no way of knowing if a 5 year IT plan will make you a 1/2 a billionaire as it has…
When I was working for a fortune 500 company, it always amazed me how easily software upgrade projects were approved. We even built a strategy called “reducing technical debt” that was used to push software upgrades higher in our prioritization model. This wolf in sheep’s clothing model drove us to spend way too much money…
In researching material for a post on executive responsibilities for IT I came across an interesting article on how a board of directors should make IT a focus. Here is a link to the full article Below is a synopsis of the article minus one of the items that I felt was too much detail…
