As businesses continue to seek out competitive advantage in tough market conditions, they often turn to technology & applications to help them streamline their operations including managing processes, maximising efficiencies, managing documentation, monitoring & reporting – to name just a few areas. Whether your Digital Transformation involves migrating to an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application or a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) it’s a journey from ‘current state’, to ‘future state’.
The journey often involves a deep dive into current processes and workflows, materials, resourcing, sequencing plus considerable understanding of the business and its unique dynamics. Business Analysis subject matter experts are key in this respect as they pull apart the business and help leadership paint a picture of what it could be like using a new platform or system.
Similarly, migrating business data from current systems to future systems is complex work that requires the input of data migration experts, and typically financial experts too. Over the top of all this, a project manager will oversee all tasks and activities ensuring that key milestones are achieved, quality benchmarks are met and overall schedule is observed.
From a business perspective consideration may need to be given to dual operating environments for a period, or perhaps a hard and fast cut-over from one to another will work – either way, the business must decide on a strategy that suits it. Ensuring all staff are ready to use a new ERP or MES system is crucial to project success and the importance around change management tasks like knowledge transfer, training, assigning champions and stakeholder engagement, cannot be understated.
If you need help navigating your Digital Transformation journey to a new ERP, MES, CRM, or business platform the Next Projects PMO team are here to help. With experts in Business Analysis, Data Migration, and Project Management, Next Projects PMO have you covered.
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