Risks in Erp Project - Cases in Sme Context
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects are considered to be expensive, time-consuming, difficult to manage, and extremely risky. ERP projects are risky from strategic, operational, technical and organisational perspectives. Risks and critical success factors of ERP projects have been widely studied, and the management of risks is a key to a successful ERP project. Generic risk analyses have faced inflation, and in the worst case companies do not manage risks in their ERP project at all.
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