About FOSTERS PROGRESS
Mission
Dedicated to guiding your SAP implementation with pragmatic approaches, ensuring your program gets on track, stays on track, delivers on expectations, all while maintaining budgetary controls. We are prepared to assist in realigning projects for success if and when you face with challenges that need to be turned into opportunities.
Services
Offering comprehensive advisory services tailored to optimize your SAP implementation. Which may include strategic planning, project management reviews, risk management assessments, budget guidance oversight, contract reviews and negotiations with software and Implementation providers. Provides common sense best practices intervention strategies where required to ensure the most successful outcomes.
Pragmatic Approach
Approach
Too many ERP implementations are faced with significant issues. Starting an implementation on the wrong footing creates programs that are full of risk factors, which can lead to wasted resources, blown budgets and a failure to achieve desired results.
Acting as your independent advisor my objective is to be transparent and reduce risk to your organization by leveraging a proven three step process.
Our three-step process makes sure that the right things are emphasized. We won’t get caught up in the rainbow of colorful transition approaches, does it really matter if it is blue, green, orange, pink or any other host of colors. What matters is that we match the business strategy with the execution approach.
1. Launch Preparation and Take Off
Ensure you hire the best, choose the right partners, select the right software with confidence, buying only what you need when you need it. Get started right by planning and negotiating for success.
2. Inflight Operations
Leveraging my proven 10 steps to Program Success, we focus on effective transformations, that are fit for purpose, based on prescribed milestones and deliverables that focus on outcomes.
3. Landing and Longevity
Landing successfully just means a new beginning. One where we need mechanism to ensure that the program delivered the expectations of the business. It also means continuous improvement and addressing the backlog of deferred post Go-live improvements. You can't eat an elephant all in one bite, so ensuring we don't bite off more than the business can chew is a critical success factor to program longevity.
ABOUT ME
Lori Foster - Founder Fosters Progress
With over three decades of experience in business operations, business transformation, and large-scale technology transformations, Lori is an accomplished executive, entrepreneur, and visionary leader. Lori was named as the Top 100 Women in Supply Chain twice by Supply Chain Magazine.
As an independent advisor, Lori specializes in guiding clients through their business transformation journeys, and leverages her extensive background in merging technology, people, and strategy to drive effective change. Throughout her nearly 30-year career, she has fostered innovative thinking in operational and organizational transformations, from large-scale initiatives to getting programs back on track.
Lori brings realistic solutions to real world challenges based on firsthand experience. She embraces diversity of thought and works with her clients by unlocking a path to success. Her leadership style is adaptable, ensuring ethical and empathetic guidance tailored to each organization’s unique needs and desired outcomes.
As a self-professed technology enthusiast, Lori excels in aligning business strategy with technology implementations and operational redesign. She is committed to driving tangible results and fostering a culture of continuous improvement wherever she goes and whoever she collaborates with.