How is that huge bloated Polaris team doing these days? So much winning?
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@296 - Thanks for sharing. Sounds very familiar. Even more so when he mentions all of the customization in the older SAP environments and then trying to move to S/4HANA.
I bet EM gives Lidl a run for the money at $600 million.
There is a YT channel on SAP implementation failures:
https://youtu.be/Hwnct9rqaCY
We're likely next up...
They are industry leading in cost and schedule overruns!
Don’t worry though. I am sure management hasn’t noticed.
@178 “Industry Standard” is the lowest level that all participants to that standard could agree upon. With no differentiation in equipment and process design, there’s no difference in what company you work for. We’re “winning” for last place…
If you don't know what Polaris is doing, prepared to be very surprised with the level of changes that happen with each deployment.
All the bells and whistles and custom customizations that make your job easier but more complex? Gone, welcome to the world of "industry standard", somehow fit your current needs to it and if the system doesn't work for you, get fu---d
apparently corporate accounting already has some wins with shorting month end reporting. don't go after me for wrong jargon, I do not work those things, just a layman outsiders takeaway from some Polaris status meetings. anything more substantial will come after proper go-live which is not happening this year.
Polaris the EMIT Project will be fine (includes upgrading platforms and shifting to S/4). Polaris the business process management transformation project maybe not. Isn’t IT’s fault that a bunch of procurement and downsteamers can’t work together to align on simplified processes.
Polaris is a failure like every other EMIT project
PSMS is same. A lot of unnecessary cost and too many people.
one win is contractors being put up in hotels for workshops for months at a go. many marriott bonvoy elite statuses are won by lucky ones.
polaris is bleeding serious money, while the rest of emit agonizes over whether one should write 2 or 4 hours a week to smaller projects in wpm. the current reality no one talks about is everyone tightening their belt for polaris's bloat and excesses.
The Polaris team can’t even explain their purpose
Not one win? Come on. There must be SOMETHING?
The "large" POLARIS team is just an excuse for managers to bill time to a "special project" funded by the Corporation, not their individual business unit.
If all managers were required to bill 100% of their time to their business unit, we would need to shrink management by 50%. Our overheads are far too high, so we must create "special projects". It's called the shell game.
Hahah Isn’t that ran by that lady still.