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How Winners Trap Their Competition

by Dave Stein ... What will be our total cost over five years including software, services, support, and customization? Are you willing to offer us a fixed-price guarantee? ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2005/02/research_notes/MI_ER_XDS_02_15_05_1.asp - 17k - 2005-02-05 Summary: Using the highest degree of professionalism and integrity, you can protect your value proposition from competitive attack by setting traps for the competition. By knowing the competition's actions, behavior, and practices, you can identify damaging behavior. After exploring the potential risks and reward

HighJump Grows in a Period of Low Growth Through Adaptable, Broad ...

by Olin Thompson & P.J. Jakovljevic ... lifecycles, which enables our customers to achieve the lowest total cost of ... Its Change Insurance policy guarantees an up-front fixed price for certain system ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2003/04/research_notes/EN_SC_XOT_04_15_03_1.asp - 21k - 2003-04-15 Summary: Although a combination of factors bodes well for HighJump's success, a key differentiating word at its camp is 'adaptability'. HighJump's approach to adaptability starts with an application platform designed to manage change. The combination of a set of adaptability tools and the ability to embed busines

Getting It Right: Product, Quality, Timing, and Price

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... added 102 Jeeves Enterprise customers at 132 sites, bringing the total number of ... Services can be packaged and sold at a fixed price, while the responsibility ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2006/04/research_notes/VN_ER_PJ_04_19_06_1.asp - 30k - 2006-04-19 Summary: The most important factor in industry is no longer the mere price of the product. Increasingly, the purchaser's task has become to obtain the right product of the right quality at the right time—and for the right price.

Maintenance, Repair, & Overhaul System Evaluation

... Analysis Fifty-two week schedule Five or more levels of work order hierarchy that can be scheduled separately Fixed price labor Fixed price total Flag parts as ... http://eam.technologyevaluation.com/maintenance-repair-overhaul/ - 54k - 2009-04-17 Summary: Compare Business Intelligence Software : Discover the 6 key modules to base your selection on and tools you must use in order to save up to 85% of time and money you'd spend gathering information on your own : Maintenance Management , Customer Contracts (Agreements),Customer Orders, Customer Quotations,

USWEB Weaves Great Quarter, turns up the heat in the Market Place

by R. Krause ... has brought in a stronger than expected quarter, making total revenues for the ... USWEB/CKS is also moving cautiously toward fixed price engagement models for the ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/eCommerce/2000/02/news_analysis/NA_EC_ESR_02_04_00_1.asp - 12k - 2000-02-04 Summary: USWEB/CKS has announced it fourth quarter results. Its performance is on the money, and continues to drive forward as it goes through expansion by mergers and organic growth. The expansion is directed at providing end-to-end services, for which the merger with Whittman-Hart is a key component. For users,

Fast-path Implementations - Are They Good or Bad?

by P.J. Jakovljevic & Olin Thompson ... years the market has seen a plethora of fixed-scope and fixed-price applications, pre ... make these offers, vendors must predefine as much of the total solution as ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2002/07/research_notes/TU_BA_XOT_07_05_02_1.asp - 20k - 2002-07-05 Summary: Over the last few years the market has seen a plethora of fixed-scope and fixed-price applications, pre-packaged vertical solutions with industry templates, limited education and training, implementation tools, attractive support programs and hosting services with catchy names, all aimed at making it fas

Software Giants Make Courting A Small Guy Their 'Business One' ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... The overall strategy is geared towards reducing complexity and total cost of ... user license number for an upfront flat rate, fixed price implementation and ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2003/06/research_notes/TN_ER_PJ_06_07_03_1.asp - 27k - 2003-06-07 Summary: Mid-market and the SMB segment are the next frontiers and a promised land for all the enterprise vendors, small and large alike.Still, the willingness of smaller IT departments to go for more sophisticated technology beyond the all-too-common dispersed islands of information on Excel spreadsheets, Access

Cookie-cutter Solutions Won't Cut It with the Mid-Market Part Two ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... vendors and their channel to offer a fixed price and fixed time implementation program in modular way, may sometimes not necessarily offer total extended-ERP ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2004/04/research_notes/TU_ER_PJ_04_20_04_1.asp - 15k - 2004-04-20 Summary: More than their larger counterparts, small and medium businesses (SMB) are looking for relatively simple and inexpensive software that is easy to install yet easy to customize and extend.

Inflation’s Demise: The Impact on Business Informa

by Nelson M. Nones CPIM ... is unnecessary during periods of price stability, and ... Further, replacing fixed assets with variable labor ... that labor's proportion of total operating cost will ... http:/.../researchhighlights/businessapplications/2000/06/research_notes/mi_ba_nn_06_29_00_1.asp - 34k - 2000-06-29 Summary: Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) business models and information systems originated in the 1970s and 1980s, an inflationary period. They addressed business priorities that were strongly influenced by inflation. Many manufacturers are now confronting worldwide price stability, or even deflationary pres

The ERP Market 2001 And Beyond – Part 4: Market Predictions

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... system integrators and consulting companies toward fixed-price, fixed-time implementations. ... decrease the industry average license revenue/total revenue ratio ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2001/10/research_notes/MN_ER_PJ_10_11_01_1.asp - 21k - 2001-10-11 Summary: ERP will be redefined as a platform for enabling e-business globally. Originally focused on automating internal processes of an enterprise, ERP systems will include customer and supplier-centric processes as well. The conclusive evidence of this redefinition is the move of all major ERP players into CRM