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• October 29, 2023

According to Butler Group, most companies struggle with setting the right CRM implementation timeline. Around 60% of CRM implementations take considerably longer than expected to implement their Open Source CRM systems. This is largely because they had unrealistic expectations to start with. The vast majority of customers plan CRM projects around best case scenarios. Often and frequently underestimate the amount of organisational change involved and their responsibilities around testing.

Realistic CRM Implementation Timelines

So what should you do? While you don’t want to invest all of your money into new CRM solution with the expectation that it will take too long and cost too much, but you also want to be realistic. Here are a few tips to ensure you are able to plan and execute a realistic implementation duration as part of your planning process:

1 Benchmark your project to that of similar organizations.

Most CRM projects initiatives take, on average, 21 months. This number has been fairly consistent over the last several years of our experience and resource. Although that number is trending higher in the last year. By contrast, many CRM vendors may tell you that their system can be deployed in just a handful of months. However, their assumptions may not be realistic and their “perfect world” implementation scenario may not apply to your organization. With that in mind, it is important to benchmark to how much time other companies like yours invest in their initiatives.

2 Don’t believe the hype.

Sales hype can also lead to unrealistic expectations. For example, sales reps may point to SaaS, implementation accelerators, pre-configured best practices. Along with other mechanisms intended to create the perception of a potentially fast implementation. However, it’s important to take these sales messages with a grain of salt. Thats because that’s exactly what they are, sales messages. Every project needs to invest time in changing business processes and people. This is by far the most time-consuming aspect of large-scale enterprise transformations.

3 Adopt world-class project governance.

Implementations often take longer than expected because the project team isn’t leveraging effective project controls. Or instituting the appropriate project governance. Having tight controls in place will ensure that customization requests, scope increases, and other common pitfalls don’t cause your project timeline to slip off track. Make sure that you have clearly defined decision processes and criteria in place to guarantee that your team is able to analyze and approve any decisions that could potentially disrupt your planned timeframe.

4 Understand the hidden pitfalls of time overruns.

Most organizations and internal team members aren’t experts in ERP implementations. Because of this, they aren’t always able to recognize the things that can contribute to longer than expected time commitments. It is important to enlist independent and objective expertise that can smoke out unrealistic time expectations and assumptions. For example, most ERP vendors and system integrators don’t address topics like organizational change management, extensive business process re-engineering, data conversation and other activities likely to consume a great deal of time, but it is important to factor these activities into your overall project implementation plan.

5 Make sure your project implementation plan is comprehensive.

If you are missing key activities such as those mentioned in #4 above, then you are less likely to be working from a realistic implementation plan. Ensure that your implementation plan includes all of the activities required for a complete Open Source ERP implementation and business transformation – not just those activities that your ERP vendor is proposing as part of their professional services solution.

As we all know, ERP is a hefty investment. It is both an exciting and trying time, but it will help to have the right people on your side. At Accellier, we have experience getting people to the finish line unscathed.

Check out our Expert’s Guide to ERP Success .

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