SAP skills

Keeping the talent, and finding the time, for strategic SAP projects

Amidst the rumors of the onslaught of layoffs at IBM, I am reminded of a theme that keeps resurfacing in my talks with analysts and customers — the importance of holding on to IT talent.

 Projects like ERP benefits realization demand a company’s most skilled IT professionals.   For instance, strategic projects like SOA have enormous potential for payback, AMR’s Derek Prior told me in a recent interview. They’re a big reason it’s important for companies to keep the clever Basis technical staff and the architects, in order to understand the broader complexities of NetWeaver and understand how the applications are configured.

Perhaps your own teams have been affected by layoffs, and some of your better people were in the mix. As a result, maybe your day-to-day tasks aren’t leaving you with a lot of time for these types of strategic projects that may be needed to really optimize the systems.

 Your issue now is freeing up, or finding, the time to work on these projects.

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