Treasure Chest: Implementation - Myth vs. reality

Best-of-breed or monolith? Fixed-price or time & material? Jan Eickmann, Managing Director at kernpunkt, and our host Linda cut straight through the buzzwords to what actually determines whether an implementation project succeeds or fails. No vendor pitch, just what it looks like on the ground when you've run these projects for large retailers, over and over. 00:00 Intro: Jan Eickmann, Managing Director of kernpunkt 01:48 Who's to blame when implementations fail? 02:50 Best-of-breed vs. monolith: who really needs composable? 08:42 AI and the future of implementation partners 14:37 Myths: good platforms, big vendors, thorough RFPs 19:00 Myths: fixed price, padded timelines, clients who don't know what they want 24:16 Why projects fail: warning signs and real-life examples 28:51 Rapid fire: myth or reality 31:10 Forced picks, final takeaways and outro