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PlanSmart! A interactive One and Half Day workshop

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WHAT IS PlanSmart!......
An interactive One and Half Day workshop in which a Buker Industry Expert Facilitator with your Management Team will:

  • Review and clearly define your company's strategic business objectives.
  • Review and define your company's Critical Success Factors - Company "Must Do-Wells". This would include the current business environment and the future.
  • Identify the current information systems utilized within the company and the major gaps in the current information systems infrastructure. Provides the opportunity to identify areas for business process improvement.
  • Determine the information system requirements for meeting your business goals. Review various software and technology options available to satisfy the information processing requirements.
  • Discuss system project costs.
  • Identify the Key Performance Metrics for your Company.
  • Create an IS/IT Strategy matrix to support your Critical Success Factors.
  • Establish your Business Systems Model --- how the new system and the functional organizations will exist.
  • Review "Why System Selections and Implementations Can Fail?". Utilizes a PC software tool for defining your companies Business Functional Environmentals.
  • Document any system Selection and/or Implementation Issues.

WHY DO A PlanSmart! WORKSHOP?......Will assist your Management Team to translate the company's High Level Business Strategy into a workable Information System Strategy, Direction, and Plan. Starts the team in the right direction for selecting and implementing an application software solution for your business.

BENEFITS OF A PlanSmart! WORKSHOP:

  • Compresses the time for defining the scope of the system selection project.
  • Establishes a plan, scope, and direction for the system selection project.
  • Examines the true need for the new system and obtains consensus on the project issues.
  • Promotes a cross-functional dialogue between key management to get the required support to make the project a success.
  • Educates the management team on systems concepts, technology, terminology and an awareness of issues that can cause the project to fail.

A PlanSmart! WORKSHOP WILL HELP ANSWER QUESTIONS LIKE THESE:

  • How do we get started with our system selection project?
  • What is the scope of the ERP software project?
  • What are our business critical success factors and will the software meet them?
  • Do we understand the complexities of this project and the resources required to support it?

PlanSmart! WORKSHOP DELIVERABLES:

  • A final report summarizing the elements of the workshop including:
    • Why Change the Current System?
    • Current Systems list Your IT/IS Vision and Strategy
    • Functional Performance Metrics
    • Critical Success Factor vs. IT/IS Strategy Matrix
    • Why System Selections and Implementations Can Fail?
    • Business Environmentals which defines functional areas/system project scope

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN THE PlanSmart! WORKSHOP?
President, CEO, COO, Functional Vice Presidents, Senior Functional Managers, CIO, IT/MIS Manager, CFO, Controller, Plant/Site Manager, Plant/Site Senior Management, and an option to include the System Project Team.

To help us better understand your software needs click here to begin to create your company's software requirements profile.

CALL TODAY FOR MORE INFORMATION 800-654-7990



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