The task of selecting an ERP system that meets current and future business needs has always been viewed as a daunting task – and it is. Careers and businesses have been lost due to poor planning, rollouts and poor product selection processes from the vendor and on-site. Working on an ERP system is challenging and […]

Many business owners focus their efforts on numbers – margin, profit, cash, overhead. While these things are important, they are far less important than we are led to believe. Leaders can get so caught up in data that they forget about the people who are the heart of their business. This is where corporate culture […]

I joined Stoneridge Software in November and like all good new employees, I started asking a lot of questions. The headline above obviously tells you that one of my questions was to better understand why our clients invest in ERP. I was not asking why they hire Stoneridge Software, but instead, why do they invest […]

You’ve made the decision to upgrade your ERP solution (see “Why Should You Upgrade Your ERP Solution?”) You have prepared yourself and your organization for some level of disruption (see “What Should You Expect During Your ERP Upgrade?”) and you are now ready to engage on the project. You have one final decision to make, […]

Quick question. You need to solve a problem which is both challenging and important. You want to get people thinking creatively, and you want to get ideas from a lot of different people. Because of the importance of the issue, you are willing to consider just about any idea. You reach into your toolbox and […]

Becoming a true, transformational leader is a process, an evolution — it’s not something you do overnight. It takes a progression of steps to be the kind of leader and decision maker who can inspire your team and maximize your team’s potential. To get there, you need to move through a series of steps. In […]

As a project gets started, a question that always comes up is “What level of documentation do we need?” I know from experience that the further you dive in, the easier it is to let the project documentation slide. As you have deadlines to meet and additional scope slipping in it’s easy to focus just […]

A lot of blog ink has been consumed on the virtues of leadership over management. Nothing I have read makes me want to be a manager. Management seems like an older, boring cousin of leadership. Leadership is energetic and inspirational. Management talks too much, or worse, yells. And yet here I am, a Project Manager. […]

Our 10-year target as a company is to “Revolutionize the industry as a company people want to work for and clients want to work with.” That sounds like a lofty, even arrogant goal, but the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) industry is in dire need of a revolution and we are committing to leading the charge […]

A three-year growth rate of 365 percent has earned Stoneridge Software an appearance on the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest growing private companies in its first year of eligibility. As a business technology consulting firm, Stoneridge Software ranks 1,150 among the top 5,000 companies and number 12 for companies located in Minnesota. Established in […]