Overview - ERP Implementation Success Factors

Axiom's record of ERP implementation success depends on a combination of rigorous method and the intelligence to know when to vary it.

We believe that a successful ERP implementation depends on four key success factors. Three of these are (or should be) standard project management practice

Early in an ERP implementation we put a lot of time into making sure that all three of these areas receive the right attention, and generate the right outcomes, in order to ensure that your ERP implementation project is run the right way. Sometimes that means having frank conversations as to the right way to do things, but we believe that open and honest discussion early in an ERP implementation project is essential to eventual success.

Underlying all of this is the fourth and most essential component for a successful ERP implementation:

Change Management.

By this we mean not simply the obvious and more common 'soft' side of change, like communications and assessing Business Readiness, but the 'hard' aspects of such a major change;

Role impact assessment - whose roles will change post live, and how?
Putting metrics in place to measure post go-live performance for quick issue spotting
Change impact identification, enabling major business changes to be briefed out, accepted and planned for.

These aspects of change are much less commonly understood, not simply in conceptual terms but also in the project management methods and rigour required for their successful employment. Axiom ERP has hard won experience of how successful change management really works.

Axiom ERP are experts at ensuring that your ERP implementation project plan is based on a proven - and appropriately modified - ERP implementation methodology, governance and resourcing, and underlaid by hard and soft change management skills in order to ensure success.