IDG Contributor Network: How the Software Selection Maturity Scale can improve enterprise software selection

Buying business-critical enterprise software entails significant risks for an organization. The goal of an evaluation and selection project is to purchase software that maximizes the ROI and minimizes implementation risks, but the sheer number of requirements make this difficult to achieve. For example, a comprehensive ERP selection for a larger company can approach 10,000 requirements. Also, there is the risk described by the Dunning-Kruger effect where IT professionals overestimate their softw