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		<title>5 Signs Your Project Is Off The Rails!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just introduced to a company in Durham, NC that has spent more than 900 hundred hours with a software developer trying to get a custom order entry system developed. It’s taken nearly 3 years and they are still unable to launch the tool because of inconsistencies in the way the system handles sales [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottpriestley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=111320&amp;post=51&amp;subd=scottpriestley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>8 Steps to an Effective ERP Project Launch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ERP or CRM selection process can be a long and sometimes frustrating process. Vendors have been reviewed and site visits completed. The contract has been signed . . . now what? The next 30 days are crucial to launching the project successfully and it’s quite possible that the vendor won’t have resources available for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottpriestley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=111320&amp;post=48&amp;subd=scottpriestley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Plea to ERP and CRM Sales Professionals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You guys are awesome! Energetic, professional – Man! You can whip up a Powerpoint presentation in minutes that would make Steve Jobs envious! (Obvious stretch there. Hang on, you’ll see where I’m going). Your presentation skills rival that of Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy and even President Obama! Your willingness to bend over backwards, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottpriestley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=111320&amp;post=46&amp;subd=scottpriestley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5 Ways Political Wrangling Can Kill Your ERP or CRM Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us have heard throughout our careers that we need to ”rise above the petty politics” or “pay no attention to office politics and just focus on doing good work”. That mind-set can kill an ERP or CRM project. How can you predict that politics will have an impact on your project? A simple [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottpriestley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=111320&amp;post=43&amp;subd=scottpriestley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Negotiate Your ERP or CRM Contract Too Hard?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a recent project we worked on I heard some very disturbing things from the client. It was a level of gloating and bravado over the terms they had negotiated with their ERP vendor. It quickly became obvious that these people regarded most of their vendors as adversaries and not as real business partners. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottpriestley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=111320&amp;post=36&amp;subd=scottpriestley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Launch!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have written whitepapers, presentations, proposals and general business papers to support our consulting business. As an amateur cook I have even kept a sporadic blog at Chowbelly but I have never really taken the time to publish items of interest to a public place for Lionshare Software. In the past I have just forwarded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottpriestley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=111320&amp;post=18&amp;subd=scottpriestley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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