ERP Kick-Off Celebration
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The Official Kick Off of our Banner (ERP) Implementation was held on Thursday January 29, 2015 at 4:00 pm in room 112 Oliver Hall. We were very excited to have our ERP Vendor Ellucian and many of our consultants on site to begin our work together on the three (3) year transformation of our Academic and Administrative systems
The Kick Off Celebration was the culmination of a multi-day "base camp" designed to share with project teams a) an introduction to our vendor/business partner, Ellucian; b) provide a overarching description of the project; c) present the initial project timeline and major milestones; and d) provide a review of the implementation process itself.
President Savoie addressed the community and project team with the fundamental challenge that over the next few years, this project should make our enrollment management, financial services and personnel operations more efficient by helping us attain a modern workflow.
In addition, the President shared a "bit of levity" in describing the 12-step program for workflow change:
- We admit we had become powerless over our past processes.
- Come to believe that a web-based, real-time system could restore us to sanity.
- Make a decision to turn over our workflow to the best practices established in the ERP.
- Make a searching and fearless data inventory.
- Admit the exact nature of our redundancies and bottlenecks.
- We’re entirely ready to remove the delays of multiple signatures.
- Humbly ask IT to remove our outdated systems.
- Make a list of all computer terminals we had harmed.
- Integrate our document management to greatly speed up response times by interdepartmental data sharing and improving self-service capabilities for our tech-savvy students.
- Take advantage of data analysis to make better-informed decisions.
- Seek through the efficiency of the ERP to reduce our costs.
- Carry this message to technophobes and those fearful of changing their workflow, including ourselves when we have temporary