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Whitepaper

What You’ll Learn

A practical case for why 70% of ERP failures could have been caught earlier, and which KPIs give leaders the visibility to act before damage compounds.

THE PROBLEM

Between 55% and 75% of ERP Projects Miss Budget or Schedule

Just 27% of organizations track leading KPIs for ERP risk. Failures build through missed milestones, scope creep, and disengagement, and between 55% and 75% of all projects still miss budget or deadline.

THE BLIND SPOT

What Project Leaders Cannot See Without the Right Metrics

Just 25 to 45% of ERP projects succeed by their original metrics. The signals were there first: declining sponsor engagement, rising change requests, training completions slipping below 75%. They just had no one watching for them.

THE MODEL

How DCG's SPEAR Framework Turns KPI Signals into Recovery

DCG's SPEAR framework runs a structured checkpoint at each stage of ERP maturity, from first visibility through to automation readiness. Surveillance spots the trend early. Each red flag connects directly to a named intervention, not a team meeting.

THE NEXT STEP

One Assessment That Tells You Exactly Where Your ERP Stands

DCG's ERP Health Check runs a KPI diagnostic across five dimensions before failure shows up on any dashboard. The output gives leadership a decision-ready picture of where risk is building and how much time remains to act.

Who Should Read This Whitepaper?

If you have ever watched an ERP project look fine on the dashboard right up until it wasn't, this whitepaper gives you the KPI framework to see it coming next time.

  • ERP Sponsors and Program Directors who need more than a status update from the project team, and want real numbers that show whether the implementation is genuinely on track
  • CFOs and Finance Leaders tracking whether the ERP investment is still moving toward its promised ROI, or quietly drifting toward another budget overrun and a difficult board conversation
  • Every CIO and IT Leader who has sat in a steering committee meeting where the dashboard looked green right up until the week things went sideways
  • Operations and Business Unit Leaders whose teams are expected to adopt a new system on a tight timeline but have seen training completion rates the project team would rather not discuss
  • Project Managers and Change Leads who can already feel something is off but do not yet have the numbers to take that feeling upstairs before it is too late to change course