Role Profile for Steering Committee Members

1. ERP Implementation Project
Role Profile
Steering Committee Members
Philip de Kock
5/10/2008

2. 1. Purpose of this This document outlines the role and function of Steering Committee
Document Members in ERP implementations. As such the document will highlight
the following:
• The role purpose
• The focus areas
• Role prerequisites
2. Role Purpose The purpose of the role is to take responsibility to implement the
Steering Committee Charter, and thereby to ensure that the mandate of
the Steering Committee is executed in the most effective and efficient
fashion
3. Key Focus Areas • The Steering Committee Member is primarily responsible for
understanding all important project issues and making appropriate
decisions to keep the project on track
• This role entails gathering the updated action items status,
communicating steering committee decisions, and ensuring that
decisions are carried out
• Monitors progress, reviews reports, intervenes/makes decisions if
necessary and attends regular Steering Committee meetings
• The above is enacted in consultation and as per mandate of the
Steering Committee as a whole
4. Role prerequisites The Steering Committee Member should ideally:
• Represent one or more of the following interests:
o Business
o Customer
o Users
• Have executive level decision making authority
• Have a high level industry and business understanding
• Have strategic level perspective
• Have a fundamental understanding of the importance of
communication, the role of leadership action and competence in
creating the right psychological climate for change