Ah, the dark underside of CMS implementations...

Keep it simple and focus on what your particular product CAN do without
putting great expectations on anyone involved.  You may, if you're daring,
care to mention that this new tool would add further benefit to real
business process engineering, when the organization is ready for it.  But
don't put you head on the block, politically by driving for those changes
now.  It will stall the implementation etc... somthing about teaching pigs
to fly... ;)

I bet that many folks on this list have seen this scenario before, and I
have lived through it myself.

Unfortunate truth is that imlpementing a CMS is a great opportunity to
reengineer business process flows, and on a small scale that's generally a
managable (not trivial) task.  It's unfortunate, however, that on a large
scale that's nearly impossible (as you suspect already.) Dozens of large
organizations have implemented and re-implemented different CMS's and carry
multiple licenses because they've not been able to conform an enterprise
worth of BP in time for any single CM rollout.

Good luck,

Michael

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