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Companies primarily opt to introduce, renew or change their business and IT solutions when they wish to increase the efficiency of their operation, automate certain business processes and increase the availability and quality of information. Regardless of that, our work experience often shows that companies feel the need to change their IT systems, but have only vague ideas as to what they wish to accomplish with the said introduction. Such an approach only rarely leads to satisfactory results, as the project is being developed without any clear guidelines and without a foundation on which to measure and evaluate the results obtained. If your goals are not clearly defined, we can help you with that. But we strictly abide by the principle that the objective of a proposed introduction must be clearly defined in advance, it must be measurable and made known to everyone who takes part in the implementation project.   

 

It is only right that companies should pay great attention to the choice of their solution and of the partner who will implement it. In spite of this, companies are rarely aware of the fact that both the implementation costs and success in meeting the objectives of the introduction depend, chiefly, on how well the company itself is organised. The key factors, apart from clear objectives, are the competences and perspicacity of the project leader on the client side, support of the company’s management, and the availability and motivation of its employees involved in the introduction. Our customers always bargain hard for the prices of project preparation (analyses) and seem to, at the same time, forget that their own introduction costs are increasing excessively.    

 

The business information ERP solution is the IT mapping of a company; an introduction is easiest if the organisation and processes of the company are clearly defined in advance and are functional. In actual fact, the need to introduce a new solution is often related to the need to modify business operations. If, for instance, a company wishes to improve its management of stocks (or goods), it will not manage to do so only by introducing ERP. What is required is a detailed overview of its business operation, identification of the causes and the modification of operation patterns. Only then follows the final solution, which is supported by an IT system. As many such findings and related modifications as possible must be made before or during the project preparation phase (analysis), thereby preventing unnecessary development and changes of settings and easing the management of settings during the implementation phase.