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The cover story, "The Evolution of ERP Consulting", written by Jon Reed is an excellent read for all of us in this industry. While the specific implications around how the changing employment landscape impacts us as Consultants, there are significantly broader implications of the change in the IT function on all technology professionals and firms that provide technology services.
The continuing specialization in skills, the expansion of complimentary skills, and the need for each of us to reinvent ourselves as consultants to remain relevant is just as applicable to Technology Service companies. At B2B, we continuously evaluate how we bring value to our clients and consultants and strive to grow the value add and move to different value propositions as markets change.
B2B was one of the first technology staffing firms to implement a formal solution architect program. This program is geared to help all of our clients develop and drive additional business to their respective companies. The B2B Solution Architect team is comprised of ERP consulting professionals averaging over 20 years in their respective ERP and functional domains. This deep knowledge and experience has been used by our clients to win work, prepare winning resumes, implement quality control programs to maximize the value of our contract consultants and perform project scoping exercises.
A couple of years ago, B2B realized that our specialty model, that highly leverages our sales people and recruiting managers, required that we have a better way to reach out to our consultants. We developed the B2B Talent Delivery Center to improve how we interact with each of you on an ongoing basis. The team has been instrumental in helping us offer our prior consultants the best jobs we have. This not only benefits each of our consultants, but also our clients benefit by having a tried and true resource and B2B benefits by being able to place total confidence in our consultants' ability.
B2B is currently working with our new parent company to utilize some web-based tools to further enhance our consultant experience. Through the tools we hope to be able to offer to our current and former consultants more job opportunities. The web tools will allow us to communicate with each of you more frequently and effectively. Keep your eyes open later this year as we determine how to roll this out.
We will be announcing in our next news letter an exciting new program with Carlson-Wagonlit travel to offer improved travel management services to our consultants that will also provide unique benefits to you. Stay tuned for these details.
As you can see, we here at B2B work hard to learn how to best bring value to our market place. We rely on you to help us by telling us what is valuable to you. Please let us know how we are doing in supporting your needs and what we can do to better your B2B staffing experience.
By Jon Reed
Some ERP consultants prefer blue (SAP), some prefer red (Oracle). But there's one thing they all have in common: a desire to keep their skills marketable in a rapidly changing market. This raises an interesting question: are there "mega skills" that transcend individual applications? Are there skills that all ERP consultants can aspire to?
I recently got back from Sapphire 2008, SAP's largest yearly trade show. During the conference, I participated in a panel on enterprise skills trends called "Competing on Talent". While the focus was on SAP, the report we discussed during the panel had a much broader scope. In this feature, I'll review some of the key findings of the report, and I'll make a point to highlight some emerging skills that all ERP consultants can aspire to.
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