Readiness Assessment

Peak Performance Technologies’ Readiness Assessment services have helped public sector customers across the nation reduce risk and increase the likelihood of a successful Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation process.  As a result of this service, organizations are equipped with the tools and information necessary to ensure they are fully prepared for their ERP implementation.  Our consulting teams spend time onsite interacting with key personnel and collecting information that allows us to help the institution define, organize, staff, budget, and plan the ERP implementation.



Our Readiness Assessment Will Help You:

• • Define Project Scope
  • Identify Realistic Project Costs
  • Develop Project Staffing Strategies
  • Establish a Project Timeline
  • Identify Potential Risks & Preventive Strategies
  • Develop Project Communication and Training Plans

Peak Performance Technologies utilizes a proven method for predicting project success that is based on over a dozen unique factors that fall into five specific categories.

• • Technical Readiness
  • Cultural Readiness
  • Functional Readiness
  • Resource and Effort Awareness
  • Project Readiness      

A team of consultants gathers critical information by facilitating focus groups and conducting one-on-one interviews with key administrative, technical, academic, and executive personnel.  An online questionnaire supplements the interviews allowing a greater portion of the institutional community to offer input regarding the project.  Information gathered is then analyzed and inserted into a Readiness Matrix as shown on the right.

A well planned, efficiently executed & effectively controlled technology solution can act as a positive catalyst catapulting for your business performance to higher levels with optimal utilization or resources, reduced operational costs and significant top-line growth. However, a mistimed, poorly planned and supported initiative can lead to a disaster for enterprise. That is where you need the services of a reliable provider to leverage your IT initiatives in the most optimal manner.  Our industry specific, goal based, top-down ERP Readiness Assessment help you in deciding the right scale, time-schedule, and size of the solution along with laying of a definite and methodical phase wise roll-out map for the efficient execution of your plans.

ERP Health Check

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is more than a "set and forget" tool – it’s a process. As business and industry evolve, organizations must be adept at reacting to change, both to contain costs and to maintain a competitive edge.

• • Are you currently experiencing the return on investment you expected from your ERP system?
  • Is your enterprise using the full suite of available functionality?
  • Did you push additional feature implementations to later role-out phases that never happened?
  • Are you leveraging the newest functionality of recent releases?

Our ERP Health Check is designed to measure how effectively your organization is leveraging current ERP applications and help you realize the full value of an integrated enterprise. Organizations that are not maximizing the benefits of their ERP applications can usually look to one of the following reasons:

• • Applications were implemented incorrectly: Deploying a suite of applications can be a daunting task that requires significant planning, resource investment, and technical expertise. It is not unusual that the up-front installation does not meet all of the planned objectives so both short-term and long-term performance suffers. 
  • Inadequate attention to change management and training: Rolling out new technologies and business processes can have a dramatic impact on the day-to-day tasks of your workforce. Effectively communicating the changes, promoting buy-in, and executing the appropriate level of training are often under-estimated, which creates a user base that does not adequately understand the new system. 
  • Ever-changing business requirements: Many organizations have been operating their ERP applications for several years. As their business processes evolve, the application is still configured for the outdated methodologies. This leads to workarounds and inefficient use of the original enterprise investment. 
  • Organizational changes: The current market environment is one that supports mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures—as well as large-scale internal growth and reorganizations. If your corporate strategy includes significant changes in size and scope, effectively integrating new data systems into your current Oracle applications can be extremely challenging.
  • Under-performing on functionality usage: Organizations often believe they are successful if they implement 80 percent of advertised application functionality. Over time, this percentage erodes even further if there is not a holistic and proactive approach to upgrades. It is common for companies to perform purely “technical” upgrades in which no emphasis is placed on implementing new features and functionality, which short-changes potential benefits. 
  • Budget constraints: To meet budget goals, the scope of an initiative is often scaled back and desired functionality is pushed to a Phase 2. In many cases, future phases do not materialize. Successfully managing project scope and expectations is critical to maximizing the full return on your up-front ERP investment.

Health Check Analysis Report

A written report detailing our findings, identifying current challenges, gaps, and configurations that may prevent you from realizing the full potential of your ERP solution will be provided. We identify high-impact areas and provide recommendations to effectively address application and business process changes that will help you cost-effectively unlock the greatest value from your ERP application.