ERP does not matter

It took ages to develop the first ERPs and roll out to successfully support core business operation. ERP is an acronym for management of business resources, maybe all ones that important. In fact while implementing the knowledge about business, processes shall be mapped, filed, overviewed and so on, many times. It seems that consulting helps to understand ourself and resign that it cost a fortune to finally arrive to a phase of deployment. For the time of taking the whole pack into use it becomes practically aged.

It was not alway so, while oldschool companies were not changing that disruptive way, nor they neither the business world around. Nevertheless ERP controlling the core business took lots of energy to deploy and operate. Finally when the company surrendered was heading to multiple decades of a practically strictly fenced single vendor cooperation that was only good for the vendor and their delivery partners.

Let us have a look to the other side of the coin. The consumerization, massive hunt after the measurable productivity flipped the coin to its other side. New companies emerged on the rim of monopolistic monster and changed even the most traditional industries. To enter the market there was no chance for compromise. New productivity and independent softwares offered the possibility to bear the cost of business softwares as the company grows, therefore breaking the ERP myth.

Here arises the new term: business application a simple and honest expression those of services that can be applied properly for supporting business management. What part of it? Anyone that is needed. What you need is what you get. Business application is a commodity, a common part of toolbox that new, innovative, growing company need to support talented humans and made by talented humans of the new generation.

Is that really black and white for now? Not yet, but evidence is tangible. Digital natives are educating and mildly pushing digital immigrants to a shinier part of business world letting them say farewell to aged IT culture packed with overhead, anchoring our boat in empty ferry.

Catch the wind and drift on the stream of realistic and healthy renewal that your business deserve.


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