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November 11, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant
Because these non core or contextual business process simply play a supporting role for that organization. They do not enable differentiation strategy and hence it’s a waste of important resource to customize these business processes. In my opinion these contextual business process can even be outsourced to some degree without having a negative impact on the organization itself.
But, the business processes that enable or is a part of core competency of that organization should not be retrofitted to the existing ‘canned’ business process provided by the Enterprise Application. Why? Because if the firm’s core competency is mapped to plain vanilla business process provide by the third party vendor, it does not give the organization an ability to sustain its competitive advantage. How can ‘someone else’ understand your firm’s differentiation strategy and your competitive environment? There is no way the business process for the core competencies of the organization can be enabled by the Enterprise Application without loosing that competitive edge. Your competitive advantage is the ‘secret sauce’ and you should try to keep it that way by not ‘watering down’ those business processes to plain vanilla third party vendor developed business process. In my view automating the core competencies of the firms should be tackled by using one of the two ways
- Customizing
Enterprise Application - Writing an internal software system that can interface with the Enterprise Application.
Each has its own pros and cons which I will write in my future blog.
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Comments (2)
Hello,
This article is really good but not enough to understand your experince how to map existing excel applications enteprise applications using java or other professional framework. Do you have some more to share? My mail is hkeskin75@yahoo.com if you want to share. thanks
Enterprise Applications should be customized, but you are correct in saying that too much customization is a waste of resources and it is going to come down to proper training in the end. People always have to adapt to enterprise applications to some extent, it isn’t going to be a perfect match to their business processes.