We applied the notion of strategic alignment to ERP system implementation and used a balanced scorecard approach to analyze business performance. The PLS analysis showed a positive association between realized strategic alignment, shorter and more cost efficient ERP projects, faster reaction times to business events, and the benefits of ERP systems. While each stage of ERP implementation has it...

In driving economic development, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which are the pillars of many countries receive support from government for various technological innovations such as cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP). Malaysia, financial (GFS) ERP implementation in SMEs has been encouraging. However, despite numerous GFS, hesitant to implement technology. Given is a low-cost technol...

Assessing the success or effectiveness of information systems (IS) is a critical issue to researchers and practitioners alike. IS evaluation, to some practitioners, is a nightmare because of the lack of knowledge regarding such issues. Researchers offer little help to practitioners as the IS research community is divided on which issues best represent IS success and what relevance should contin...

To the best of our knowledge, extant definitions of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) success are not comprehensive, and they do not address all of the most relevant dimensions of this complex issue. Consequently, current ERP success models may lead to deceptive evaluations. Through a rigorous logical shift starting from IS failure, and diverging from classical project management approaches, t...

Competitive Advantage is important thing that have to be considered when implement the ERP system. Most of the organization only gain operational benefit rather than create the competitive advantage. A lot of factors that influenced the success of ERP implementation in order to gain competitive advantage. One of them is the organization maturity level. We classify the organization maturity leve...

This is a multi-site case study of firms that have implemented enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. It examines eight dimensions of culture and their impact on how ERP implementation teams are able to effectively share knowledge across diverse functions and perspectives during ERP implementation. Through synthesizing the data, we develop a cultural configuration that shows the dimensions...

Firms worldwide are adopting enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Yet, few studies exist investigating the influence of organisationaltechnological contingency variables on the success of ERP systems. This study uses existing IS and ERP success evaluation models to investigate the influence of some of such contextual variables in two contrasting, yet similar, countries in Northern Europe...

This paper presents the findings of the investigation of ERP implementation, challenges experiences by a South African Company in ERP implementation, success factors, failures, and propose recommendations to improve ERP implementation. The data collections methods used are questionnaires. The paper contributes to discussion on ERP implementation in developing economics. Keywords—CSF, ERP, MRP, ...

A majority of efforts in terms of technology commercialization have failed; however, the issue of commercialization and its high importance are agreed upon by policymakers, entrepreneurs, and researchers. This shows the high complexity of the commercialization process. One of the main solutions to overcome the commercialization problems is to predict the success of technology commercialization ...

Like any IT project, the intricacy of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations brings with it high risks to the organization because of high upfront costs and low success rates. ERP implementations are not simply software installations but a radical integration and transformation of an organization’s business practices. System acceptance and perceptions of success weight heavily on no...