Beyond 2027: The SAP ECC Migration Decision is a Governance Decision
The SAP ECC 6.0 end-of-mainstream-maintenance deadline of December 31, 2027 is now well understood. What is less well understood is the governance risk that surrounds it. Enterprise boards are being asked to approve migration strategies — Greenfield, Brownfield, or Hybrid — on the basis of roadmaps and timelines produced by the very teams responsible for […]
The Questions That Could Have Prevented Five Months of Delay
SAP transformations require rigorous governance to avoid costly setbacks. A VP of Finance recently reflected on losing four to five months in her company’s S/4HANA programme — due to insufficient scrutiny of their systems integrator before the project began. This delay was not inevitable. It stemmed from a failure to address critical questions that expose […]
The Conflict of Interest at the Heart of SAP Transformations
Your SAP transformation will fail. It will fail quietly, in a thousand small compromises, long before it fails publicly — not because of the technology, but because nobody was truly holding the program to account. The cause is almost always the same: the partner responsible for building your new core is the last partner who […]