TECHNOLOGY
What are the new rules and behaviours needed to take the business forward ?
• Think effectiveness and not efficiency or productivity
• Think of your place and role in the entire value chain
• It is all about information and how you respond to customer demand
• Continuous improvement thinking
• Develop a strategic view of how you want to take your business forward and what you need of a technology platform to serve your business purpose . Requirements vs needs and wants
• Make sure this strategic business purpose is front and centre throughout the project and is used as critical success factors for the project – resist using only budget , deliverables and deadlines as primary success factors for the project
• Use business purpose to lead requirements and not what the current system does or the features of the new system . Remember , software sales people are rewarded for selling software , not for improving your business .
How must the new software support the new rules and behaviours ? Take care not to provide requirements that result in the new system being based on how the old
18 October 2016