Five Reasons Why Business Process Reengineering Should Happen Before Your ERP Implementation

You come across it all the time. It sounds good in theory, and it’s what most executives want to hear in the boardroom, but how realistic is this notion? Unfortunately, it’s not very realistic at all. There are a number of flaws with this approach. The business process reengineering should happen before – not after – you begin your  ERP implementation . Other than poor organizational change management, poor business process management is the single biggest and most common differentiator between ERP success and ERP failure. In fact, it’s now evident that effective business process management and well-designed business processes was one of the top reasons of success (or failure) of ERP implementations. How one can possibly reengineer business processes without having the software installed, or in some cases, not even knowing what software is being selected, right? It’s a great question, so here are the five reasons why business process reengineering should start before your...