I'm sure most of you feel like I do this week: grateful that the long, holiday break is over and I can get back to work. OK, maybe grateful isn't the right word; maybe it's more like sad. But however you feel, it's important to get the year off to a great start.

Not all IT projects are locked into a calendar year, but for budget purposes, many of them are. Those of you who are planning to initiate a project in 2012 have to be focused on making whatever implementation your business is undertaking a true success story.

Every month for the last decade or so I've written a case study article for Tech Decisions (we call them Business Solutions) on implementing some type of software. Some projects are more complicated than others, but all involved getting off to a good start in the planning stage.

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