Posts Tagged "best business lessons"

First a few questions. Are you self aware? Are you ready to let go of what work makes you feel empty and cynical? What work fulfills and excites you? What do you do better than others? And finally – if you won the lottery what would you do? What would you do if you had all the money in the world? It comes down to what fulfills and excites you, doesn’t it? Why aren’t you doing this as a career right now? Think about it and don’t let...

Gather the company business experts together to expose business and SAP priorities. Those priorities should be closely linked to what your customers want. Unlike Six Sigma projects, SAP tools can be a total game changer for certain areas of the company. Tools like electronic batch management or quality notifications can bring huge efficiencies if integrated well with your current SAP modules. Educating the user community prior...

Don’t change what you can’t. When I first joined a past company I was sitting in with the senior executives discussing the long term IT strategic plan. I told them that if key executives kept throwing products in the short term forecast without warning, the IT system does not “fix” the multiple disruptions to the supply chain. Your IT system is only as good as what you decide to drop in it. I knew I couldn’t change those high level...