CUPERTINO, CA (PR Web) – February 13, 2012 – Ten SAP veteran consultants co-authored SAP Lessons Learned: Human Capital Management to bring professional expert tips and tricks to help navigate SAP implementations.  These authors have experience with SAP initiatives which are usually challenging, large, and complex and involve multiple locations, stakeholder groups and business interests. Many enterprises have deployed SAP and expect that their consultants include lessons learned from previous initiatives which is why this book is so significant.  It offers customers and potential customers the ability to read about some of the lessons learned prior to engaging with a consulting firm.

Veteran consultant LaShonda Rahming, editor for this book from Happy About Inc and owner of the All About Collaboration platform, worked with nine other Human Capital Management consultants to co-author and create a timely book which offers insights into helping make each SAP implementation a success story.  SAP Lessons Learned: Human Capital Management showcases the collected wisdom of leading consultants who share experiences that run the gamut from tackling post go-live resistance to increasing end-user productivity. Dr. Lou Thompson, Professor of Enterprise Management Systems at the University of Texas at Dallas and active member of the SAP University Alliance Program recognizes the unique benefit of this book when he says, "There is no other book like this on the market written by consultants who all have great experiences. This is a must read for existing clients, anyone considering implementing SAP HR, and anyone teaching SAP HR."

SAP Lessons Learned: Human Capital Management is written in a style that is easy to read, absorb and translate to immediate action.  It provides critical material on how to overcome common and not-so-common challenges within the SAP human capital management space. Discover how to gather detailed requirements, select an implementation partner for your organization,  increase your understanding of change and project management and learn techniques to increase end user productivity. Hermes Mendez, Director of ICTS at the Orange County Public Schools endorses the book’s value when he calls it "Brilliant, perceptive, and insightful―a must read for anyone implementing or supporting an SAP implementation."

Whether you are a SAP consultant or a manager driving an internal ERP implementation, SAP Lessons Learned: Human Capital Management has lessons that will help you minimize the gotchas and drive your SAP implementation to success.  Karen Heatwole, Vice President of the Human Capital Management Center of Excellence at SAP America also endorsed and recognized the book’s significance and says “It is an important collection of work for those looking to implement or expand their HCM landscape”.  This is the first book to be launched from the SAP Lessons Learned series that is similar in format and written by SAP Consulting professionals that will include Finance, Reports, and Security.  If you would like to be considered as an author, please to www.allaboutcollaboration.com and sign up to be an author on the homepage. 

About the Authors:

• Veteran consultant LaShonda Rahming is a best-selling author and editor for this book.  She has been featured in Inc Magazine as an emerging leader, on ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox affiliates with Michael Gerber on his television show about small businesses. As Chief Collaboration Officer of All about Collaboration, she has worked with each of the authors of this book to create content useful to anyone who is on a SAP project team or is looking to implement the SAP Human Capital Management module.  Although her career has spanned many different areas within SAP HR, she is currently a senior Talent Management Consultant specializing in E recruitment, Performance Management, and Succession Planning.
• Scott Burton is Managing Director of Whitaker-Taylor, an SAP consulting firm specializing in extended team services, production support and integration projects.
• Steven J. Chihos is an independent Organizational Change Leader with theBigRocks LLC in Orlando, Florida.  He writes a popular blog for change agents at http://theBigRocks.com.
• With over 12 years’ consulting experience involving all phases of SAP implementation, Michael Feast designs and implements SAP HCM transformation solutions for clients in industries spanning from pharmaceuticals to oil and gas.
• Tracey Groomes, CEO of Brit Incorporated, is an expert in the SAP Enterprise Learning space.  She has worked with many large and complex organizations to deliver a quality product. 
• Beginning his career as a programmer at JC Penney, Raaz Karimi is a certified SAP HCM consultant who has worked with the private, public and federal sectors. He is now a respected project manager working with both the private and public sector.
• Saaz Karimi worked at SAP America before becoming an independent SAP HCM consultant with a focus on new HR implementations, upgrades, and keeping current with the latest SAP releases. 
• Co-founder and managing partner of HodgePodge Solutions, Sean Mallon has created first ‘true’ e-procurement hub for ERP Partner products.   The platform that HodgePodge Solutions offers is truly significant and is gaining popularity quickly with top brands across the world.
• Jan Redmond has professional SAP experience within an array of roles at several major corporations including Xerox and SAP.  His current role at Cap Gemini allows him to evangelize the SAP Human Capital Management message to new and existing customers around the world.
• Maxine Wood is a certified SAP HR consultant who has specialized in Benefits for thirteen years. She is currently working on a public sector engagement with concurrent employment.

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PUBLISHER: Happy About, Inc.
TITLE: SAP Lessons Learned--Human Capital Management
SUBTITLE: SAP Experts Share Experiences to Directly Impact Your Next Initiative
AUTHORS: Scott Burton, Steve Chihos, Michael Feast, Tracey Groomes, Raaz Karimi, Saaz Karimi, Sean Mallon, LaShonda Rahming, Jan Redmond, and Maxine Wood
DATE OF PUBLICATION: January 2012
PRICE: Paperback $19.95, eBook $14.95
ISBN: Paperback 978-1-60005-217-0 (1-60005-217-7)
ISBN: eBook: 978-1-60005-218-7 (1-60005-218-5)
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER: 2011961232

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