Control Your ERP Destiny: Reduce Project Costs, Mitigate Risks, and Design Better Business Solutions 2nd ed. Edition

This book was a welcome addition to my business/IT library. Some content I especially enjoyed:1) Detail around the importance of developing in-house skills in 3 areas: project management, business analysis, and software configuration.2) Useful ERP software and consultant selection frameworks.3) A clear but comprehensive ERP roadmap, outlining the major phases of an implementation project.Those 3 were worth the price of the book alone ... the rest was gravy.

As someone who has gone through an ERP system implementation, I can say that I wish I had read this book before I started. It is packed full of practical advice and rings true throughout. If you are about to embark on a project or simply need some reminders, I highly recommend reading this book. You will surely find many things you can put into place to make the process go more smoothly.

Good and practical read with a heavy focus on the systems side. Infrastructure and related application stuff is barely touched upon.It contains a number of good lists that are a good start point to become checklists without being rigid.

This book is written bluntly. Which, as a management consultant who has implemented ERP systems for 20+ years is refreshing and business leaders should pay attention. In my experience, most ERP programs are severely hampered by lack of business leadership involvement or lack of knowledgeable resource participation from the business. Sure, consultants and IT staff cause problem too, but more often that not, those problems are fixed. It's really hard to create a good system that the users will find productive if they don't participate adequately and it's almost impossible for them to participate without leadership involvedment. Bottom Line Up Front: ERP is a team sport and NOT an IT project.

As a practioner and implementer of ERP systems for 20-plus years I must say this book is breath of fresh air in a usually stuffy topic area.The author preaches a product agnostic way to think about the selection and implementation process of ERP systems. Very insightful. There is also a lot of solid project management knowledge covered along the way.I would make this required reading for anyone contemplating an ERP system in their future.

I wish this book is published 15 years earlier when company I worked for decided to implement SAP ERP. The book has mentioned at least 50% of the troubles I met. If the steering and core team of the project had learned most mindset from this book, implementation should be 100% more successful and 30% reduction of cost. As a retired CIO & 3rd party independent ERP project manager, I always recommend my clients read this book before survey stage of ERP Project.

Excellent book. Very Insightful. As an ERP professional for more than a decade I agree to most of the observations and analysis of Steven. It is a MUST read book for all who are in the business of ERP implementation - IT analysts. IT managers , IT Directors , CIO , Business users and Business leaders , CEOs.....

Our company is starting an ERP project and we bought this book as a reference. It has proven to be very informative and a good guide as to what we need to do when and different things we should be thinking about during the different steps of the project.