Since retiring from P&G last summer, I’ve captured my learnings from 35 years of application development in my new book, Successful Enterprise Software. It's an executive’s guide detailing the leadership, process, and politics required to drive business results faster!

Statistics from Gartner, McKinsey, and others identify troubled or failed mega-projects costing $1M+ at 65%. Adding new technologies and remote sites pushes the failure rate above 80%! Why are we doing so poorly? Key reasons affecting mega-project success include leadership, process, and politics. Modifying the way an organization works requires top-down leadership, focused on transforming the way work is executed. Successful delivery is enabled by aligned accountability and work process. Collaboration, based on understanding politics, is the third component to deliver against the “One Team, One Dream” mantra.

Transforming your critical business processes through enterprise software is a multi-million dollar investment, which will hopefully be in place for decades. Getting it “right” is crucial to your company’s success.  To be clear, your enterprise solution will never be perfect. And you don’t want it perfect. Striving for perfection will drive costs dramatically higher and force significantly longer timelines, while providing only marginal improvement. As a C-level executive, you must collaborate across functions, leading the organization to deliver the correct balance of capability and quality, relative to cost. You must also require and support development of on-going processes ensuring operational excellence. The process your team uses, the organizational structure, and senior management support greatly affects the success of enterprise software solutions.

Learn additional details by requesting a free introductory call, download the free executive summary, or purchase Successful Enterprise Software. At $1 per experience-year, it’s a bargain!