[jojoleflaire]

In my experience, the best way to break in is to find a process that either isn't handled or handled only tangentially by existing ERP packages. It helps too if that process represents a new way of doing business for your customers. That way you get to pitch for growing the top-line (i.e. creating dollars that didn't exist before your software came on the scene) vs. bottom-line savings that just cut costs.

Not to throw cold water on your idea, but I have deep reservations that pure technical expertise in generic enterprise development/implementation will win anyone over. All of the big guys plus numerous other consulting companies already offer this, with much more name recognition (deserved or not) than you will have. Additionally, one of the main features of packaged software is that customers not only are loathe to manage a development process, they are reluctant to even engage one in the first place.

But if you can distinguish yourself by being The Smartest and Best (TM) in a particular business area, all of your skills in execution can back that up and create a winning operation. But without that domain focus and expertise the story is much less compelling.