Business success has historically depended on focusing on principles of:

• discipline(s),
• resources, & opportunity,
• planning

And most recently

• Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP)
• WEB Engineering and Infrastructure Design

The degree of successful business and not-so-successful business outcomes have been the result of addressing these principles in varying degrees of intensity and combinations.

The orchestration of applied principles to the numerous functions within the BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT is the hallmark of PRMEA’s success.

1. The basics of Discipline
   • QUALITY OF CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
   • Mission and Objectives of the business at hand
   • The establishment of an infrastructure that supports the mission and objectives
   • The development of business processes that will serve the business needs and align the numerous functions into a System-of-Systems.
   • The appropriate checks and balances for control
2. The basics of Resources and Opportunities
   • Finance and Accounting Systems
   • Human Resources Systems
   • Marketing and customer relation systems
   • Information Systems
   • Applied technology and communications (properly aligned)
   • Marketing Analysis
   • Contracting, Procurement & Materials Control
3. Planning applies to all of the above in the following forms
   • Strategic Planning
   • Operations Planning
   • Cost and Budgeting development and controls
   • Cost vs. Benefit Analysis
   • Performance Measurement and Evaluation(s)
   • Risk assessment and mitigation strategy

PRMEA delivers the optimum combinations of these business elements and meld them into a technology appropriate recipe for success, addressing the combined functions of the specific business model.

Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP)
(The Start of a Digital Nervous System)

Our experience with the ERP systemss can be described as that of being the "master planner" who will insure client satisfaction by developing an uncommonly precise scope definition, statement-of-work, system(s) specification and operations blueprint (data mapping and functional flow diagramming). ALL of which is user defined and accepted. USER in this context are ALL persons from the Chairman-of-the-Board, to the hands-on performer. USER satisfaction must be the proof of a successful implementation. Most importantly, the solution must not cost more than it is worth.

Let us recognize ERP for what it is.

ERP is a set of integrated applications that record actual cost as they occur within spe-cific functions. Those actuals are definable and organized to meet predefined specifica-tions. The details of those specifications and subsequent architecture of the recording processes are a critical step in successfully implementing an ERP system. (This effort is, in my opinion, the single most important reason ERP implementations are so costly and unsatisfactory to the customer).

The implementation of the ERP is not the most user-friendly experience a company will experience. Today's ERP is a disciplined architecture that does not flex to the company functional idiosyncrasies. Our observation is that of the client not understanding the in-herent structure of the ERP and assumes the implementation will adjust to the workplace.

The implementers assume the client understands the adjustments needed to be made in the functional processes of the workplace and proceeds to adapt the ERP modules to as close a fit as possible.

During this "dance-of-assumption", no one has included the functional workplace user in the schema of the implementation; their current methods, concerns, fears, undocumented steps of performance, needs and wants for a better work place.

PRMEA would function as an orchestrator and conductor of an implementation. Imagine if you will that the implementation team is a symphony of effort performed by numerous persons. Some of which are the ERP vendor, some are the client representatives, some are the hands-on user community and for the enhancement, some are the EVM (Earned Value Management System) practitioners.

PRMEA would make sure we are playing from the same book of "music" with full un-derstanding of the score and its arrangement to the client needs, at the workman's level. PRMEA will maintain harmony and the cadence because PRMEA understands the ele-ments of the ERP, more important PRMEA understands the value of melding in the EVM. ERP + EVM = MICS (Management Information Control System) The system-of-systems and the digital nervous system.