The 2027 SAP Deadline Is a Technical Problem. Your Real Risk Is Human.
SAP’s 2027 maintenance deadline is driving SAP S/4HANA migrations. The date is technical. The risk that determines ROI is human — and it starts long before go-live. There’s a date showing up on a lot of roadmaps right now: 2027. That’s when SAP ends mainstream maintenance for ECC (with extended maintenance available until 2030 for organizations […]
The People Who Decide Whether Your SAP Transformation Succeeds
You went live with SAP. Milestones achieved. Training completed. Project closed. Success. At least on paper. But a few weeks later, reality starts to look different. ⚠ What’s happening on the ground: Teams create workarounds. Old spreadsheets come back. Processes drift. Adoption stalls. What happened? Often, the answer isn’t technical. It’s social. Because people rarely […]
Go-live Isn’t a Success. It’s the Starting Line.
Most transformation programs celebrate too early. Months of planning. Configuration complete. Training delivered. System launched. Go-live happens, the project closes, and everyone moves on. But that’s exactly where many transformations quietly fail. Because launching a system doesn’t mean people changed. And if behavior didn’t change, business value probably didn’t either. The problem isn’t implementation. It’s […]
What Pasta Cooking Can Teach Us About Change Management
The best time to add salt to the pasta is when the water is boiling. This was a piece of advice Antonino Canavacciuolo, a 3-Michelin-star chef, shared on a live TV show in Italy. As a fellow Neapolitan, I couldn’t help but draw a parallel between this advice and the timing of introducing a change […]
The Hidden Cost of Keeping Change Management in the Background
Project managers can end up aligning with resistance when the pressure is unsustainable.