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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (17476)	8/20/2002 1:58:32 PM
From: BelowTheCrowd	of 19079

As I said, there are often very good and solid reasons for maintaining non-standard processes. But you need to understand WHY you are maintaining them and what the costs are. At Intel, we had good reasons for NOT doing certain things the "industry" way. I have yet to find a successful company that doesn't do some critical stuff "their own way" and often doing this is part of the reason for their success. The other thing is that there are some industries that are inherently different from others (especially true in certain types of industrial equipment) for which no software package is really going to fit. It makes little sense for a software developer to come up with the unique features needed by only a handful of companies. I've seen many companies like that fail at ERP implementations because neither they nor the vendor really made an effort to ensure a good fit in the first place. Software vendors often pay the price in bad publicity for over-agressive sales forces and consulting partners who push their software into places where it doesn't belong. IMO the big consulting organizations are much worse about this than the software vendors. mg

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