Blueprint
Design decisions held to the business case, not the SI’s template.
ERP isn't a generalist project. We place program leaders who've delivered on SAP, Oracle, Dynamics, and the rest — who know the blueprint-to-hypercare arc, where these programs slip, and how to hold a system integrator to the plan. One owner, accountable end to end.
Not a new coordinator each phase — one leader accountable for the whole arc.
Both can run a plan. Only one has sat in the cutover decision before — and knows which “green” status on the SI's report is actually amber.
Manages the plan as written
Has delivered this before
The same leader carries the program from the first design workshop to the last day of hypercare — so accountability never resets at a phase boundary.
Design decisions held to the business case, not the SI’s template.
Configuration to scope, with change controlled — not quietly absorbed.
Migration run as a workstream from day one, not a cutover-week scramble.
Defects triaged on severity; go-live evidence built, not assumed.
The go/no-go call owned on evidence — with a rollback ready if it’s no.
Stabilization driven until the business actually runs on the system.
The schedule is the easy part. ERP programs are won on the calls that don't appear on any Gantt chart — and these are the ones our leaders have made before.
Holds the SI to the statement of work — reading the contract, the burn, and the quality, instead of taking the weekly green status on trust.
Protects the baseline against the steady drip of “small” change requests that, uncontrolled, become the budget overrun.
Treats migration as a first-class workstream — profiling, cleansing, and reconciliation owned long before cutover week.
Understands the order dependencies between modules, interfaces, and environments — and sequences the program so they don’t collide.
Owns the go/no-go decision on evidence, not the calendar — and has run the rollback plan they hope not to use.
Refuses to call go-live “done” until the business is using the system — because an ERP nobody adopts delivers none of the case.
Need the full leadership bench — PMO managers, interim CIOs, turnaround leads? See Project Leadership.
Your leader runs the whole program on AMIGO — schedule, resources, RAID, and reporting in one place. That's the difference between a leader who tells the board progress and one whose progress the board can see, the moment it changes.

Starting blueprint, stuck in build, or staring down a cutover date — we'll match an ERP leader to your platform, scale, and the phase you're in, and have them productive in days.