1st Edition

Maximizing Business Performance through Software Packages Best Practices for Justification, Selection, and Implementation

By Robert W. Starinsky Copyright 2002
    398 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    Learn how to:
    § Select the best ERP software for your organization
    § Choose the most effective wrap around software to enhance the performance of an existing ERP system
    § Align software selection with business goals and objectives
    § Budget for the software and the hidden costs involved in its implementation

    At times a daring, maddening, and even frightening process, finding and implementing a suitable software package is never an easy task. The cost of the software package is often a fraction of the overall expense. Unless carefully selected, a major software package implementation can consume a considerable amount of your organization's time and energy. An ill-informed purchase can cost your organization it's customers, dollars, and reputation.

    Maximizing Business Performance through Software Packages: Best Practices for Justification, Selection, and Implementation explores the business challenges involved in justifying, selecting, and implementing software packages. It contains practical advice and insights on how to select "good fitting" software packages, how to justify them in terms of their ability to enable business process change or improvement, and most importantly, how to implement them successfully.

    Selecting and implementing enterprise architecture technology software solutions involves a large expenditure across all the resources of an organization. The process has become increasingly complex as business functions have become increasingly integrated. Maximizing Business Performance through Software Packages: Best Practices for Justification, Selection, and Implementation provides a definitive source that will help you select the solutions that best fit your business needs.

    The Software Package Revolution
    The Software Package Marketplace
    Business Performance Measurement: An Introduction
    Determining Business Needs through Discovery
    Linking Business Process Improvement and Software Packages
    Building the Business Case for a Software Package
    Understanding Software Package Infrastructure
    Software Packages: Getting What You Want Isn't Always Easy
    Software Selection: The First Steps
    Software Package Selection: The RFP Process
    Software Package Selection: The Evaluation Process
    Software Package Implementation: Planning Yields Success
    Appendix A: About the Templates
    Appendix B: Contacting the Author

    Biography

    Robert W. Starinsky