A innovative approach on ERP selection in Higher Ed...
Let me start by saying that this is not a blog entry for those not interested interested on how educational institutions select their ERP software solutions. Do yourself a favor and return to where you came from as reading this will be as exciting as watching paint dry... However, I think members of my Higher Education network will find this interesting. Campus Management was recently invited to participate in an ERP procurement process by a consortium composed of three institutions located in the same geographic region. Consortium procurement is not as rare as it once was, but what made this unique was the lack of similarity between the member institutions. Normally the institutions in a consortium ERP procurement have some common characteristics that drive common requirements. That was not the case here as the institutions were fundamentally different, yet they saw the collaborative value of coming together for a strategic decision like this. Exce...