“Recognizing that adoption or end-user compliance is one of the main barriers to a successful program, the ability for project champions to leverage user comfort with known applications such as Excel to access certain functions within the SAP architecture could stimulate stakeholder buy-in, at least internally. By promoting the utilization of SAP through a familiar, […]
August 27, 2008
“Regardless of the moniker, the majority of government initiative elemental roots can be traced back to the New Public Management (NPM) ideology in which efficiency, accountability, decentralisation and marketisation are the main components or drivers (J.E. Lane, Public Sector Reform: Only deregulation, privatization and marketisation, Public Sector Reform, 1997). Since the early 80s the NPM […]
June 25, 2008
Like the old real estate adage of location, location, location – communication, communication, communication is the key element to a successful supply practice. Unfortunately, ineffective methods of communication between important stakeholders continues to plague most organizational supply chain initiatives. This point was driven home by the results of a 2007 Aberdeen study involving Chief Financial […]
October 23, 2008
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