NAW Events 2024-2025: Networking for Distribution Leaders
EstesGroup and NAW: A Powerful Partnership for Distribution Success The National Association of Wholesale Distributors (NAW) has been a cornerstone of the multi-trillion dollar wholesale distribution industry since 1946. Let's explore NAW's role, offerings, membership...
BPR for ERP: Reimagining Business for the AI Era
The BPRs of ERPs Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) or Business Process Review (also BPR) have evolved into a crucial strategy for companies navigating the rapidly changing digital landscape. If you've been in your industry for even a short time, you've likely...
ERP Culture & Digital Transformation
Who says you have no culture? Eric Kimberling and the team at Third Stage Consulting serve as thought leaders in the digital transformation community, helping customers through software selection, change management, system implementation, and the integration of...
Levels of Leadership: The High-Flying and the Etherized
his willingness to engage the organization, and its members at all levels was one important part of the success that the company went on to have under his leadership
Winning the Business Shuffleboard Game on the Deck of the Titanic: How lack of leadership and misguided direction sunk one long standing company
To put it simply, there is no replacement for domain-knowledge. The best leaders I have worked with understand this principle. No leader is an expert in all areas, but when good leaders assume leadership of a company, they immediately dive into a phase of learning–about the business, its culture, its business climate, the market conditions, and whatever additional factors are required to allow the leader to be able to make good decisions.
Are Your Lenses Obscuring Your Vision?
As ERP implementation consultants, it is of necessity that we come into a business from the outside, unaware and unaccustomed to the perspectives that shape the business in question. The expectation here is that our ERP implementation strategies across such environments gives us a cadre of different perspectives to use, and that we should be able to use these to the benefit of our client when they develop a vision and strategy.
Digital Transformation Warming up to Change and Change Management
Digital transformation is a term that has received a lot of air time lately, and not surprisingly, it has also received a fair amount of suspicion. This should not be surprising, from the dawn of the written word, people have been suspicious of change.
Epicor Configurator Introduction: Configurator Offerings
Epicor ERP Configurator Questions…We Have Answers Epicor’s Product Configurator is among its most enigmatic and elusive modules. Configurator has been diversely characterized and mischaracterized, as everything from the cure to all that ails you to the straw...
Don’t Be A Slave To Your Business EstesGroup BPR
Does your business ever get stuck in a rut and can’t figure out how to get out of it? You got people spending just tons of time every single day working 12-hour days, working Saturdays and Sundays just to try to figure out how to get themselves caught up, get ahead—on-time delivery shipments, quality issues, you name it.