Enterprise Transformations, It's all About Performance Management

Adopting new technology can be considered one of the pillars of progressive thinking, however, next crucial step is to effectively leverage the technology to drive value for customers, business, stakeholders, technology users and enhance their capabilities. This can be achieved by:    Choosing tech with internal/external customer focus ·     Planning effective change management to increase adoption and usage of tech through a focus on varying learning needs by a group of users such as age, preference, impact on their work etc.     Planning for lag effect and investing in building readily available resources and tools to support learning and adoption and a greater focus on users who have no willingness to adopt    Being open-minded to bring in new talent to help and support the transition From my finance transformation journeys I remember two cases of gross margin financial planning implementation where the client wanted to opt new tech to drive more efficiency and acc

Knowing enterprise planning application (ePBCS) supports many models including Financials, Workforce, Capex, Project and Strategic planning. Each of them contains some model-specific dimensions and supports 3 custom dimensions.  This will make you question the old number of dimension limits in a planning application overall, earlier this limit was 20. We put some time in exploring these limits and found that the limit is 32!. Obviously, we are not an advocate of having such a high number of dimensions, however its good to know the supported number of dimensions while designing the overall architecture considering long term strategy for the entire landscape.  We tried to tick the application by creating 30 odd custom dimensions and then initializing a module, as anticipated we got following error message: "Number of Dimensions Cannot be more than 32. Enabling the module will exceed allowed number of dimensions" Again note, these limits are at the applicatio