Reengineering is a concept that is applicable to all industries, particularly information and communication technology (ICT) projects regardless of organizational type, size, culture, or location. The enterprise resource planning (ERP) system frequently requires organizations to change their existing business processes to harmonize them its functional activities. 72% of the ERP implementation f...

This study identifies ten potential critical success factors (CSFs) in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems implementation from ERP and IS literature and examines the application of these factors in eight projects. ERP systems promise to provide an off-the-shelf solution to an organization’s information needs. Implementation of ERP projects has proven difficult, complex, costly and time c...

The capabilities of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to integrate all the business functions needed in a single system with a shared database efficiently and effectively has persuaded organizations to adopt them. In enterprise environment, successful ERP implementation has played a vital role for organizational efficiency. In this respect critical success factors (CSFs) have been id...

An organization's long term success depends on its ability to exploit its current capabilities while simultaneously exploring fundamentally new competencies in a dynamic environment. Research has revealed that most successful enterprises are adept at refining their current offerings, but they falter when it comes to pioneering radically new products and services. This calls for organizations to...

The objective of this study is to explore how Information systems (IS) success is defined and perceived by a group of managers in a public university in Saudi Arabia. The results show that culture does influence IS success perception which poses problems particularly to organizations that decide to implement Enterprise resource planning systems (ERP). A misfit between the user IS perception and...

This paper reports on a study that uses a combination of techniques to formally characterize and determine the critical success factors influencing the effective usage of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, with special reference to higher education institutions. The thirty-seven ERP success factors identified from the literature are classified into: Critical, Active, Reactive and Inert...

odern project scheduling techniques have been around for almost 50 years. The original development work on the critical path method (CPM) and the performance evaluation and review technique (PERT) began in the mid 1950s [6]&[7]. Although the basic principles behind CPM and PERT have not changed, significant advances in project scheduling have taken place in the years since these techniques were...

spectors) within the government program and 1,500 supervisors (mostly female) in programs operated by nongovernmental organizations.1 The domiciliary distribution of family planning services has been widely recognized as a key factor in the success of the Bangladesh program.2 However, in recent years, this approach faced several challenges. First, because of increasing numbers of women in the r...