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I am the author of "IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts - 66 minutes to read: Not Another How To Book" Available on amazon  (check your local amazon for faster / cheaper delivery!) or check http://www.pibeco.com/book  Some of the feedbacks I got were the wish for more details / more explications on the individual thoughts.  I'll take that challenge and will create a weekly short podcast on all major medias and video cast on YouTube.  It will be published on fridays, each episode starting with the lecture of one thought and then a brief explain / idea / experience behind. The podcasts will be 5-10 min.  If you like .. share and forward ! If you want to get in touch with me, check on LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/pirminbercher/ )  or via www.pibeco.comIf you liked .. spread the news !If you can’t wait for next week www.pibeco.com/bookIf you want to support me coindrop.to/Pirmin or  www.buymeacoffee.com/pirmin Have fun ! Greets  Pirmin  

  1. 4D AGO

    38 Pirmins Podcast Thought #38 Empower the team

    #38 Empower the team A crucial part of the project is decision taking and driving the directions. Empower the team and the team members to drive decision and create new processes. Create a culture of change.  For this reason, it is so important to have the “right” the team, those who “know the processes” or those who know where they want to go in the future. If you only have “those who know the process”, then your new solution will be pretty much same in blue. If, on the other hand, you only have those who know where they want to be, there is a risk of losing the busi-ness itself.  It’s like always a fully unscripted recording !  Happy to get your feedbacks!  If you liked .. spread the news ! If you can’t wait for next week www.pibeco.com/book If you want to support me coindrop.to/Pirmin or  www.buymeacoffee.com/pirmin IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts - 66 minutes to read: Not Another How To Book, available on Amazon.  Support the show www.pibeco.com/book

    5 min

  2. FEB 8

    37 Pirmins Podcast Thought #37 Use the best on job

    #37 Use the best on job  When it comes to the creation of the team, we need people who can do the job. Make sure that you use the best for this job from your organization! This may hurt, but only if you select the best persons you can get the best results. One mistake often done is, that the „Best in Job”, maybe the purchasing team lead, is so highly involved in the daily business, that he sends his deputy or even worse the „newbie“ in the department as the newbie does not yet support the operational business to a critical level. This will fail for 2 reasons, on the one hand as the team lead will always need to review the results and second the „newbie“ / „deputy“ may not know all processes by heart. It’s like always a fully unscripted recording !  Happy to get your feedbacks!  If you liked .. spread the news ! If you can’t wait for next week www.pibeco.com/book If you want to support me coindrop.to/Pirmin or  www.buymeacoffee.com/pirmin IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts - 66 minutes to read: Not Another How To Book, available on Amazon.  Support the show www.pibeco.com/book

    5 min

  3. FEB 1

    36 Pirmins Podcast Thought #36 Free the resources

    #36Free the resources  Make sure you can free the needed internal resources. Having critical key roles covered with people who are attributed “50% of their time” for the ERP will not work. They need to be fully attributed and committed to this critical task. Prepare the back-fill of these early enough, to make sure that the replacement person is trained well enough to support daily business. Some persons may only need to contribute to individual tasks with a small amount of time, but these persons also need to be availa-ble when they are needed. Sooner or later, you will struggle with the availability of resources either for the project or the operative business, which generates your money and therefore, is often privileged. Make sure you have the answer on this. It’s like always a fully unscripted recording !  Happy to get your feedbacks!  If you liked .. spread the news ! If you can’t wait for next week www.pibeco.com/book If you want to support me coindrop.to/Pirmin or  www.buymeacoffee.com/pirmin IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts - 66 minutes to read: Not Another How To Book, available on Amazon.  Support the show www.pibeco.com/book

    6 min

  4. JAN 24

    35 Pirmins Podcast Thought #35 An ERP implementation is enough

    #35 An ERP implementation is enough  Typically, an ERP implementation challenges a company to its max. On the resources side manpower will be, apart from fi-nancial restrictions, critical. There will be many operational resources involved either directly with elaborating the new/adjusted business processes or indirectly by supporting the persons who too took over their business /operational work, which they did before. Also changing / implementing an ERP system requires to rework / redesign / integrate directly con-cerned subsystems not integrated by the ERP. It will also stress the investment budget as it is typically a costly project. Dili-gent work on the requirements and tracking of deviations will reduce the surprises. Don’t put an additional workload on your company! And don’t make the ERP project the guilty person for your needed changes. Changes to your business must come from within the business and supported by the ERP! No system will solve your problems!  It’s like always a fully unscripted recording !  Happy to get your feedbacks!  If you liked .. spread the news ! If you can’t wait for next week www.pibeco.com/book If you want to support me coindrop.to/Pirmin or  www.buymeacoffee.com/pirmin IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts - 66 minutes to read: Not Another How To Book, available on Amazon.  Support the show www.pibeco.com/book

    5 min

  5. JAN 17

    34 Pirmins Podcast Thought # 34 An ERP implementation is like a heart surgery

    # 34 An ERP implementation is like a heart surgery An ERP is by its straightforward meaning „Enterprise Re-source Planning“ in most cases the core system to maintain your business processes. Implementing this or deeply changing it is like an open-heart surgery. You need to be aware of the risks, the work ahead but also having the confidence that the implementation will be successful. Therefore, one of the fun-damentals is to have a team you trust and rely on. Not only on your direct reports, also on the extended internals and includ-ing external resources like business partners or freelancers. If you don’t have faith in them, you will fail. You need to have people who are not only committed but going beyond com-mitment! They need to be dedicated to the work it takes. Give your team the space they need. If you give them the space and freedom they will go beyond what work means.  Most of these projects you can’t steer with a 9 to 5 / 5 days/week work rhythm.  There are waves, ups and downs like a surfer you have to follow their rhythm, and some you can skip but others you have to ride. It’s like always a fully unscripted recording !  Happy to get your feedbacks!  If you liked .. spread the news ! If you can’t wait for next week www.pibeco.com/book If you want to support me coindrop.to/Pirmin or  www.buymeacoffee.com/pirmin IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts - 66 minutes to read: Not Another How To Book, available on Amazon.  Support the show www.pibeco.com/book

    6 min

  6. 12/12/2025

    33 Pirmins Podcast Thought # 33 Give me what I want not what I asked for

    Watch it till the end, and next time when you have breakfast, think of the complexity # 33 Give me what I want not what I asked for The typical problem is that the requirements are not clearly defined which leads to a different solution. Make sure that the persons involved in the requirements definition understand the business case, understand to communicate this requirement to different stakeholders and to abstract their problem from the direct use case. Developers think different than functional con-sultants who think different than the user. Easy to be lost in translation. A good thing can be to have a trained translator. A person who knows your business and business processes by heart and also know the software you want to implement and understand software logic.  It’s like always a fully unscripted recording !  Happy to get your feedbacks!  If you liked .. spread the news ! If you can’t wait for next week my book https://lnkd.in/ezE6BvwV If you want to support me on coindrop https://coindrop.to/Pirmin or buyme a coffee  at https://lnkd.in/dh7zmEJU Also available as audio cast on  Apple Podcast https://lnkd.in/ea8PR647 Spotify https://lnkd.in/entj3ktg  And many more just search for me (Pirmin Bercher), there's only one. Support the show www.pibeco.com/book

    7 min

  7. 11/29/2025

    32 Pirmins Podcast Thought # 32 Systems should make work easier

    # 32 Systems should make work easier Always keep in mind that you need to generate value with your solutions. Sounds too obvious. Not because having a fancy thing makes it a good thing. People like easy and fail proof things that don’t need too much thinking.  Often, we tend to forget what the customer wants and deliver a technical solu-tion. Today there is a little mistake in it, do you find it? The first who pings me, mail via my website www.pibeco.com or here, gets a free paper copy of my book. Should be there before Christmas! It’s like always a fully unscripted recording !  Happy to get your feedbacks!  If you liked .. spread the news ! If you can’t wait for next week www.pibeco.com/book If you want to support me coindrop.to/Pirmin or  www.buymeacoffee.com/pirmin IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts - 66 minutes to read: Not Another How To Book, available on Amazon.  Support the show www.pibeco.com/book

    4 min

  8. 11/21/2025

    30-31 Pirmins Podcast Thought #30 Excel is Heaven and #31 Excel is Hell

    Double episode ! There's no (Excel) Heaven without (Excel) Hell   # 30 Excel is heaven In many companies, Excel is the wonder tool! When you look around the things that can be done by Excel, it’s sometimes amazing that there are other tools in the world. As often read, Excel is not an ERP ;).  But you should not underestimate what can be done by an Excel expert. But also be sure that you are the expert or have the expert(s). # 31 Excel is hell As said before, Excel is heaven if you use it right. But there are too many possibilities to fail! If you need to implement functions on an Excel basis, make sure that you define the targets and assure the maintenance once the tool is implement-ed. Most of the Excel-based tools start with a great idea but become the untamable beast over time. So be sure you have the beast master ;) It’s like always a fully unscripted recording !  Happy to get your feedbacks!  If you liked .. spread the news ! If you can’t wait for next week www.pibeco.com/book If you want to support me coindrop.to/Pirmin or  www.buymeacoffee.com/pirmin IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts - 66 minutes to read: Not Another How To Book, available on Amazon.  Support the show www.pibeco.com/book

    6 min
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I am the author of "IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts - 66 minutes to read: Not Another How To Book" Available on amazon  (check your local amazon for faster / cheaper delivery!) or check http://www.pibeco.com/book  Some of the feedbacks I got were the wish for more details / more explications on the individual thoughts.  I'll take that challenge and will create a weekly short podcast on all major medias and video cast on YouTube.  It will be published on fridays, each episode starting with the lecture of one thought and then a brief explain / idea / experience behind. The podcasts will be 5-10 min.  If you like .. share and forward ! If you want to get in touch with me, check on LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/pirminbercher/ )  or via www.pibeco.comIf you liked .. spread the news !If you can’t wait for next week www.pibeco.com/bookIf you want to support me coindrop.to/Pirmin or  www.buymeacoffee.com/pirmin Have fun ! Greets  Pirmin  

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