Category: Transformation

  • Building Communities

    Building Communities

    One of the lessons from the Shared Services Strategy for Government was the importance of building communities. Any project is delivered by people. A programme even more so, and with five programmes that each span multiple organisations, the importance of bringing people together can’t be stressed enough. The first community…

  • Learning from the Shared Services Strategy for Government

    Learning from the Shared Services Strategy for Government

    I gave a presentation at the UK Oracle User Group based on my five years at the heart of this initiative. There’s too much to cover in a single blog post, so I am going to spread this out as a series. This first post will introduce the Shared Services…

  • Minimising Business Impact

    Minimising Business Impact

    My heart sinks when I hear of an ERP implementation aiming to minimise any impact on the business. It sounds like that would be a good thing, but implementing an ERP in an organisation can be a once in a generation event. It should be a transformational programme, not something…