I have been in IT and management for several decades. We consult in IT, Open Source, ERP etc. You may see more details about ERP Implementation process at: http://indiaahead.net/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=UdoIT
In my experience I have seen, especially in developing economies, that most prospect decision makers, doNOT understand about management consulting, business process re-engineering or streamlining, and they just like you to demo the software package, hoping that a demo will provide the consulting and educational inputs (free if possible), and prefer to get their advise from the Vendor sales folks. In case of an Open Source ERP, this is usually not economically viable. Our answer to this problem was UdoIT. In a short training the process for an ERP implementation is outlined. The steps needed, skills needed to do these steps, and what happens if they are not done properly, are explained. We have seen that with this approach the prospect understands what has to be done, and the value add provided. Only then do we we spend effort on any lead to further the sale, let alone demos and implementation. We have plans to make an eLearing course, for educating and training customers to help have more successful ERP projects. This will be done over the Internet, using groupware, wikis etc., web conferencing and Open Source Course management system; Moodle. Hope to start a pilot training by Aug 2009. Pl. also see http://indiaahead.net/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Information+Technology Vipen -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=36756#36756 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman2/listinfo/tinyerp-users
