Who We Are
Who We Are. The principals and associates at Adaptive Growth have been in what is now called the ERP industry since the early 1970’s. We've been directly involved in more than five hundred major software implementations in manufacturing and distribution companies. We've been on the edges of many more, and software we've developed has been implemented in many times that number. During these 30+ years we've seen many aspects of the industry change utterly and just as many stay the same as they ever were.
Who we were. Our backgrounds are in what is now called the ERP industry. We have sold hundreds of ERP systems, managed the implementation projects for those systems and developed software that was added onto those systems. We've been doing this since the early '70s, and if we could claim to never have made the same mistake twice, our powers would now be bordering on the supernatural.
What we've seen. We've seen great successes, disastrous failures and everything in between. Over time we've come to notice something that took us a while to focus on, just because we never expected to see it. This is the simple fact that success or failure didn't seem to depend very much on which product was being implemented (even when it was ours), nor on who was hired to implement it (even when it was us). Success seemed to depend, more than anything, on how the company that was paying the bills managed the entire process, from conception through final implementation. And we've drawn some conclusions from this, which have led us to where we are today.
What we’ve seen as a very significant change in the last thirty years has been the passage from single source solutions, where the (only) seller bore significant risk if the project failed for any reason at all, to today's environment, where the buyer assumes all risk because the seller is never responsible for making the system work as a whole and the buyer does not control the buying process when evaluating, acquiring, implementing or upgrading business software—especially ERP systems.
What we’ve not seen change much in the last thirty years: the process used to evaluate, acquire, implement or upgrade business software (especially for ERP systems).
What that's led us to: the workshop we developed and sell, which teaches what the successful ERP users of the world have always done for themselves.
In creating this we have invented nothing. The only part of the process that we can claim to have invented is the specific way our workshop is laid out.
