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The higher education industry worldwide is currently facing a number of challenges in trying to be academically competitive and operationally efficient at the same time. Information technology, in the form of large scale Enterprise Systems, have shown the promise of enabling them to run their...
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This article drew on the resource-based view of the firm and assessed how manufacturing firms—particularly in developing countries—can leverage their IT resources in support of lean manufacturing and agile manufacturing. The data collection was conducted via a survey of Iranian automobile...
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The notion that an increase in information technology investments will result in a positive impact on productivity has … investment in IT and productivity while others suggested otherwise. Even though there is a growing number of an academic studies ….88%, whilst Africa has not contributed much to IT and productivity literature with just 8.51%. The study therefore concluded that …
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Successful Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations are a boon for organisations. However, there have been … many instances of failed ERP implementations globally resulting in millions of wasted dollars. It is vital to learn from … past ERP implementations so that such expensive mistakes are not recurrent. This qualitative exploratory case study aims to …
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Enterprise wide integrated systems (ES) have been extensively procured in large organizations but much research fails to develop sociotechnically informed approaches that facilitate their implementation within complex organizational environments. In this paper the authors take a critically...
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This article describes how the Internet of Things (IoT) and its smart objects will be the fundamental building blocks for the creation of smart pervasive systems. Precision Agriculture can be defined as the use of information, communications technologies and electronic devices in agricultural...
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This article describes how entrepreneurs face critical risks in terms of quality control and knowledge management while outsourcing software development to independent service providers. First, it is recommended that lump-sum payment contracts should be avoided since software development project...
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The complex data and information from all sectors are integrated together by the ERP within an organisation. Because of … the various kinds of end users, the implementation of the ERP is a complex process to handle. Some of the effects of … individual, technological and organisational factors are taken into consideration as in the impact of the usage upon ERP and its …
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. However, SMEs that adopted ERP on-premise solutions before are now facing a dilemma: continuing with ERP on-premise upgrades … respect to indicators of ERP adoptions. Cost, reduced demand for own IT resources, outage/accessibility and performance were … found to be the most critical and important factors to assess ERP adoptions for SMEs. …
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Organizations that purchase packaged application software – for example, an Enterprise Resource Planning system – must make choices about customization. Packaged software vendors and practitioners recommend that organizations customize software as little as possible, and instead adapt their...
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