System Solutions: A Best-of-Breed Strategy

You don’t want to make those kinds of decisions in an ad hoc fashion. Thus, a business process reengineering program should go hand-in-hand with every best-of-breed systems search.

Also, draft an enterprise systems plan. Without a high-level roadmap to establish priorities, budgets, and overall goals and objectives, not only will the key players in your organization be hindered in implementing a well-coordinated strategy, but your vendors will have a difficult time knowing which end is up.