Letting Software Dictate Your Business Continuity Program?
Years ago, in a conversation about ERP systems with the president of a Tier 1 automotive supplier, he said something that will forever stay with me. We were talking about whether we (the company) should retire our legacy system in favor of SAP. He said that if he really had his choice, we should develop our own solution in-house. Puzzled, I pushed further and asked him what would drive him to reach such a conclusion with SAP, Oracle, our legacy product and a number of other industry-specific solutions available. He responded that he doesn’t want to change the way he manages the business to make it fit with some off-the-shelf application according to how some software developer or any other company thinks his business should be managed. Read More
