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Our Application services are very simple in the way they are organized: critical services and key services. The first category are covered 24×7 and 365 days. The second ones are just 8×5 on working days. The rule is simple: what service do you want to pay? just pick one. This year the finance closing period … Read more
A basic framework to implement solutions in a big corporation under the portfolio of business activities is: Hypothesis POC (proof of concept) Pilot Standarize. Ground rules: There is an evaluation of the results at the end of each stage, The pilot is preferably aligned with the IT strategy. Process standardization is a key element that … Read more
Today we conducted the kick-off meeting for a project. This SAP technical upgrade starts next week after an assessment process and the feeling has been: how beautiful calm we have experienced Today in comparison with the assessment process, where the stress was present in almost all the areas of evaluation. Will do have a please … Read more
I did a decision one month ago and it was to move this blog to a different place. Why? why not.. These are my thoughts and my notes, no more.
This assessment has been a very accurate exercise for defining the right approach for the technical upgrade, the reasons? Our customer wants to save money on the project. They want to understand how much can be saved in terms of infrastructure investment. They want to fit the solution with their SAP environment, looking for potential … Read more
Suddenly I’m your customer, what am I looking for? You are prepared: do you know your/my industry, you know the business processes, what is/isn’t valuable for us, our priorities, our business initiatives. You know my company: who we are, how we approve/reject projects, where we are investing, who is who. You demonstrate initiative: Be proactive … Read more
I have found a salary study in Michael Page web site. I have done the exercise of comparing some standard role as Project Manager in different countries and the differences are interesting. For sure these are general reports, but is always good to have references
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This is something we have been working on during last 2 months with a good degree of knowledge for us. First step was to define groups of requirements we cover with the existing tool and the desired requirements. Data integration (from SAP, from different sources of information, integrity of new data, ) Configuration & Support … Read more
Toolkit I have been using these 2 last years is being different to the one used in the past. Now I work with: Pipeline file Risk & opportunity plan Agenda and contact list Forecast sheet for teams Rolling forecast sheet Capabilities sheet Control book by Asset Id and portfolio Allocations sheet P&L files Imagination Something … Read more