Need Money? Become a consultant for your county...
Posted: 06 Sep 2010, 01:02
| Marin County in California has managed to spend 30 Million $ on a SAP solution they do not want! They have used Deloite and and a local consultant on the implementation of the software. The Problem is of course that they sat back and expected a solution that should work by a miracle, without involving the employees and adapting routines. This is important information for any implementation of any system. Who is going to use it and how - and they forgot that part  Meanwhile Deloite and the consultant are relatively hostile towards each other. And the war is on. This happens far to often and the main problem is that the owner of the software is not involved to an extent that he is even remotely capable of understanding what is going on. | SAP states that the software works as it is supposed to and no one denies that. Toke them some time and 30 Million dollars to find out that they did not want that one.  Could be interesting how many million dollars they will spend before they find out that Oracle is useless too  As long as you spend 5 years on the process it does not really matter; most software is obsolete in 5 years anyway  The problem here is that they depended to heavily on Deloite and the consultant without having an opinion of their own during the whole process. And when these to disagreed they had no clue who was right or wrong because they did not control the proses. Hard to say who is to blame. But after all it is only tax money so they will get more. And then they can have another go..... Hence my tip for you guys to consider a career in county consulting - there is money in that  |
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