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Are you asking me if I think I have a Master Data problem?
We recently surveyed and interviewed hundreds of master data professionals from medium and large enterprises across the globe, conducting several ...READ MORE
By Jim OFarrell | April 30, 2013 at 3:54 pm
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Onsite Observations
As many of you know, part of Winshuttle’s core value is the capacity enablement or productivity gains associated with the variety of ways you ...READ MORE
By Jim OFarrell | May 21, 2012 at 2:10 pm
BVA SAP Value Assessment
Workflow Usability - Assessing Time and Value
In recent blogs, my discussions have focused on the value associated with changing business processes from a usability/usage perspective—for ...READ MORE
By Jim OFarrell | March 27, 2012 at 8:21 am
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Taming Maverick Spending in the P2P Process
So today's discussion centers around the whole procure to pay process and the related impact of the diminishing role of direct ...READ MORE
By Jim OFarrell | February 20, 2012 at 2:20 pm
Accounts Payable AP Payment Procure to Pay procurement Sourcing
Best Practices for Deploying Winshuttle on an Enterprise Scale
Recently, our marketing and product team interviewed several of our leading enterprise customers on the topic of best practices for a Winshuttle ...READ MORE
By Jim OFarrell | January 23, 2012 at 2:58 pm
SAP Process Improvement Winshuttle Enterprise Deployment
Technical Architecture for Automating SAP Processes using Forms and Workflow
This week's blog is a plug for a recently published white paper detailing the technical platform requirements for SAP forms and ...READ MORE
By Jim OFarrell | December 23, 2011 at 8:16 am
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Confidence intervals and their importance to our value assessment process
Thanks to everyone for their feedback on my recent posting related to our new tools and processes for higher quality value assessments.  In fact ...READ MORE
By Jim OFarrell | December 5, 2011 at 9:45 am
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SAP Process Time Savings Part 2
In a prior blog, I discussed the work that we are doing to improve the confidence in our business value assessment process and metrics.  I ...READ MORE
By Jim OFarrell | November 15, 2011 at 5:27 pm
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Learnings from the Field - Extending Business Value Assessments with Usage Scenarios
As we have been evolving our Business Value Assessment (BVA) program, we are now in the process of extending the insights gained from the BVA to ...READ MORE
By Jim OFarrell | October 25, 2011 at 9:59 am
Business Value Assessment MM01 SAP Process Innovation VA01; SAP; Sharepoint Winshuttle BVA
SAP process time savings - establishing confidence intervals
Over the last two years, as we have gathered millions of records of Winshuttle usage data – often times people ask about the validity of ...READ MORE
By Jim OFarrell | September 26, 2011 at 4:16 pm

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