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Update: Los Angeles schools' payroll problems "stabilized"

The Los Angeles Unified School District LAUSD seems to have ended it's year-long payroll system failure. For most of the last year, many teachers have faced incorrect paychecks resulting from problems during the implementation of an SAP system. According to the Daily News in Los Angeles: ...

Tags: Deloitte LLP, Finance, LAUSD, Michael Krigsman, Operational Accounting, Payroll

Blog posts 2008-01-20

Turnaround strategy for Los Angeles school district payroll failure

Payroll problems on the Los Angeles Unified School District's LAUSD SAP implementation have been ongoing since February and continue to the present. This troubled project vividly illustrates how implementation failures can affect real people, in this case teachers who've suffered for months with incorrect paychecks. The obvious...

Tags: Deloitte LLP, Finance, LAUSD, Michael Krigsman, Operational Accounting, Payroll, Personnel Assignment, Problem, SAP AG, Strategy, Superintendent, Teacher

Blog posts 2007-10-13

Los Angeles school district SAP implementation still broken

Severe payroll problems arising directly from the Los Angeles Unifed School District's LAUSD SAP implementation continue unabated. Back in June, payroll problems had reached a boiling point, with the school union threatening boycotts and a lawsuit. According to eWeek, the situation has not improved: The situation...

Tags: Payroll, SAP AG, Teacher, LAUSD, Operational Accounting, Finance, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-10-08

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LA school district and Deloitte in $18m failure settlement

Implementation consulting firm, Deloitte, will pay the Los Angeles Unified School District LAUSD $8.25m and forgo $10m in unpaid invoices to settle a long-standing dispute over payroll problems arising during an SAP implementation. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Deloitte LLP, Settlement, Payroll, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Finance, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-12-16

Sixteen IT failures to remember

Sixteen IT failures to rememberWinFS did not make the list???And don't forget Copland.Surprising.RE: Sixteen IT failures to rememberYou have got to bust your butt to make this stuff work. The parking lot is empty when you come in and empty when you go home. Thousands of people getting...

Tags: Strategy, IT Failure, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-11-11

Data breaches: 2007 IT failure superstar

Data breaches represented the most important category of IT failure during 2007. The year 2007 saw spectacular failures, ranging from improperly-paid teachers at Arizona State University ASU and the Los Angeles Unified School District LAUSD, to a massive implementation problem at the UK National Health Service NHS,...

Tags: Breach, Information Technology, Data Breach, Disaster Recovery, Strategy, Data Management, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-12-29

Oracle's double standards

Oracle has allegedly invited 30 bloggers to its Oracle OpenWorld event. Yay - they get the value of independent analysis...or do they? Check Jake Kuramoto's blog on the topic: Oracle has extended an invitation to leaders in the blogging community, who can come experience the pageantry of an entire...

Tags: Back Story, Blogger, Blogging, Conversation, Corporate Communications, Dennis Howlett, Internet, Jeff, Marketing, Mike Krigsman, Oracle Corp., Public Relations, SAP AG, Standards

Blog posts 2007-10-15

Fake Larry Ellison weighs in on LA payroll issues

Fake Larry Ellison weighs in on LA payroll issuesapples/orangesSoftware vendor aside, LA USD was late and over budget, no? ASU was on time and under budget. The implementations took much different approaches too, so is this a fair comparison?Let's look at the factsLAUSD: Late, over-budget, no payrollASU: On-time, under-budget, no...

Tags: Operational accounting, Larry Ellison, ASU, payroll, Oracle Corp., SAP AG

Discussion threads 2007-10-10

Bizarre ERP implementation experiment at Arizona State

Arizona State University's deployment of Oracle ERP is challenging important and fundamental assumptions about how complex software systems should be implemented. ERP implementations are often difficult, expensive, and painful, involving significant disruption to the organization. To minimize these disruptions and ensure the system works as required, most...

Tags: School, Probability, Oracle Corp., Payroll, ERP, Arizona State University, Payroll Problem, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Operational Accounting, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-09-25

"They Knew it would be Hellish"

The Los Angeles Unified School District LAUSD has a problem with its Business Tools for Schools BTS ERP implementation: the new payroll system isn’t working correctly and paychecks are wrong. This has led to an uproar, with the teacher’s union advocating that teachers boycott student meetings and filing a lawsuit...

Tags: Deloitte LLP, District, Finance, Michael Krigsman, Operational Accounting, Payroll

Blog posts 2007-06-11

INTERVIEW: Lydia Segal on Government Waste and Corruption

Some of the most dramatic examples of IT-related waste can be seen in public sector projects. To get a handle on why government projects are so problematic, I spoke with Lydia Segal, one of the nations foremost experts on waste and corruption in public schools. I asked Lydia to explain...

Tags: Interview, Government projects

Blog posts 2006-05-26