Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Building a succesful Navision team

Most ERP implementor companies tend to separate and specialise their implementation consultants both horizontally and vertically. Horizontal separation means specialising for a module, or a set of modules, or in Navision terms, a set of application areas, while vertical separation means specialising in being either as a "business consultant" and a "technical consultant" (or developer).
Well, if you've got a big team it *might* work (although don't bet on it) but it certainly won't for smaller teams with a headcount less than five. The reason why it won't work is the "Navision pyramid", which I will explain in a later post, now I just put it short:
  • Nowadays SMB clients are not very interested in financials, they usually buy ERP to improve their day-to-day operations, therefore operations advantage is the key selling point.
  • The implementation of Navision's logistics/operations application areas need to be done a lot more differently than the "traditional" G/L, financials and accounting analysis & controlling application areas.

Due to these factors, traditional consulting approach is often unsatisfactory - customers rather want "solution builders" than plain "consultants".

For More information visit: http://navitips.blogspot.com/2006/03/building-succesful-navision-team.html

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