Unfortunately, its not always about the money. In many cases its about a change of leadership where the new guy on top wants his own personal favorite software. I have been personally involved with at least 2 instances where a new CFO has insisted that the ERP solution with which he/she/it is most familiar was instituted without regard for cost, ROI, or the possibility of increased functionality. In another case a new CIO insisted that a relational database (Informix in this case) was the only way to go and after 5 years and 10+ million dollars they had managed to replace the AR & AP modules with no new functionality, more than quadruple the size of the IT department, and completely give up on the idea of replacing the businesses core application (alarm monitoring) because of the propensity for the new systems to crash on a regular basis.
I think it would be to our advantage if only businesses were in fact led by rational intelligent people all the time but Enron, Global Crossings, Bear Stearns, etc, etc, etc should be sufficient warning that they are not. Rex Gozar wrote: > It's fun to think of UV as the underdog and how the cards are stacked > against us. It's fun to be in the "I told you so" crowd when the > competitor fails. > > [stuff removed] > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeff Schasny - Denver, Co, USA jschasny at gmail dot com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
