Project Risk and the Project Progress Assessment (PPA): Keeping Your Project on the Straight and Narrow

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Project Risk and the Project Progress Assessment (PPA): Keeping Your Project on the Straight and Narrow

In our last blog about project risk, we made mention of our Project Progress Assessment Workshop which supports risk identification, management and mitigation. PeopleSoft implementations can be complex and challenging with many projects running within the core project. Ensuring that all activities, obligations, project structure and deliverables are met on time is a challenge unto

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Reminder: Two Weeks Until Oracle’s Customer Showcase & Maintenance Summit

Hands down, the best conference for ALM (asset lifecycle management), EAM (enterprise asset management) and MM (maintenance management) is Oracle’s Annual Maintenance Summit.  It’s a no-pitch, no-pressure meeting of the brightest minds and companies in the EAM space, and Oracle puts a tremendous amount of effort into encouraging information sharing and relationship building. We’re less

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Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management

In previous blog posts (see here and here) and our Business Intelligence Manifesto whitepaper we have discussed the importance of aligning metrics and goals from top to bottom in the organization. Aligning metrics and goals allow the organization to measure its performance consistently against the key objectives of the entire organization. This means that every

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Understanding Metrics for ‘Great Place to Work’ Initiatives

Many organizations striving to be perceived as a ‘Great Place to Work’ consider leveraging retention as a metric to assess their success. While a common practice, organizations often leverage it incorrectly. Let’s walk through a few of the pitfalls in using retention metrics and get to some meaningful ways to assess if your workforce wants

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Identifying and Managing Project Risk

Risks are inherent in every project, whether it be PeopleSoft ERP or Business Intelligence (BI). Risks are present before the project begins, all throughout the project and even after the project is officially closed. There is no way there aren’t risks, nor is it advisable to minimize or ignore them, for if they are not

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What Is ‘Real-time Data Warehousing’?

I get asked the following questions often: What is real-time data warehousing? Is there such a thing as real-time? Who defines ‘real-time’ anyway? Is real-time really just ‘near-time’? It comes down to this concept: the ability to have valuable, quality data in your data warehouse as quickly as that data is generated within your operational

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The Dark Days of Speed Trumping Value

Lately, all I seem to hear is, “How fast can you upgrade my HCM?  How fast can you deploy my new Talent Management solution?”  It’s all about technical achievement and getting ‘solutions’ in place as quickly as possible. What is this fascination with speed to implement/upgrade a technical solution without consideration for what value it

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Understanding Business Transformation

Yes, you’ve heard it over and over again. Organizations make substantial investments in technology hoping to improve business practices. In the early stages of projects, the focus may indeed be using technology to improve the business, but as deadlines approach, this focus invariably narrows to enabling an on-time go-live. But there's more -- much more.

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