You are probably using a system right now, it sort of does the job but experience has shown you that you are not achieving your full potential. You may also find yourself in any one of the following situations;

• Your current software package requires a lot of customisation, not everyone is using it and it's going to cost even more to get it where you want it to be
• Your current in house system is not effectively maintained and costly to develop or improve
• Your current supplier has failed to help you get the most of the system and the on going support is poor and expensive
• There is very little internal resources and skills
• Your requirements are not entirely clear and there are still unknowns about certain issues and how they can cost effectively be resolved
• Lots of data is captured and that's where it stops, there is very little available to you in terms of business intelligence and meaningful analysis

Let's face it you made the best decision possible at that time. But a lot has happened in the mean time and now you have reached the stage where to achieve higher growth and substantial increase in productivity you need to upgrade. But can you be sure that it can be done?