KPN, the market leader in major segments of the Dutch telecoms industry, operates a fixed telephony network in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium. KPN wanted to reduce the costs and increase the productivity of KANVAS, its cable network connection address registration system, because KPN's legacy mainframe was reaching the end...
DaimlerChrysler has engaged in a series of portal projects in order to provide structured access to the huge amount of data and applications available to customers, partners and employees. One of the most successful usage scenarios has developed around the 'Supplier Portal', serving more than 15.000 individuals from around 7000...
Rapid Enterprise Resource Planning ERP implementations are very much in vogue today, especially for midsize enterprises with limited resources and budgets. Rapid ERP implementations are generally completed in weeks, not months or years, as in the past. Rapid ERP implementations decrease the risk associated with disruption...
The Idea in Brief Why do so many deals that looked great on paper end up in tatters? Negotiators on both sides probably focused too much on closing the deals and squeezing the best terms...
The Idea in Brief Top leaders’ formal strategies determine how business gets done in your firm—right? Wrong, say authors Joseph Bower and Clark Gilbert: It’s other ...
You don't hear nearly as many horror stories about long, protracted, and expensive ERP implementations the way you did just a few years ago. Has something changed?
Current trends indicate that higher education institutions are spending more than $20 million to complete single Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system implementations. These trends also point out that the success rate estimate of those implementations is as low as 30%. An ERP implementation project warrants and requires a high level...
Successful Enterprise Resource Planning ERP implementations require a sense of shared responsibility and ownership from the IT organization and each functional department. Involvement and engagement from all of the constituent groups - including the faculty, deans, and students - is critical for project success. However, the primary leadership should come...
Enterprise Resource Planning ERP implementations are very complex. To obtain a fair level of understanding of the system, it is then necessary to model the supported business processes. However, the problem is the accuracy of the mapping between this model and the actual technical implementation. A solution is to make...
Implementation often occupies a problematic position in accounts of strategy. It is often seen as a separate and low level activity. The assumption of separateness contradicts empirical evidence, while the assumption of low level activity portrays implementation as simple and automatic despite evidence that implementation often fails. This paper proposes...
This paper discusses an implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system in a local government setting in New Zealand. While the ERP body of literature is growing, micro level studies of the implementation experience are still rare. Organisational agendas are formed at the interactional level. Managers accompany change with...
Tight glucose control by intensive insulin therapy has become a key part of critical care and is an important field of study in acute coronary care. A balance has to be found between frequency of measurements and the risk of hypoglycemia. Current nurse-driven protocols are paper-based and, therefore, rely on...
This document deals with the evaluation of Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 requirements. It discusses three topics. The first concerns the initial effort it took to do the implementation; the second involves how investors are reacting to the results; and the third includes points to consider for companies preparing now for their...
Utilities often choose an in-house approach when implementing Customer Information Systems CIS to manage risk, control costs, and guide conversion processes. However, contrary to these good intentions, CIS implementation continues to be one of the most financially risky activities a utility can undertake. To counter ballooning costs and meet project...
Given the availability of such a simple measure as implementation shortfall, why has VWAP Volume Weighted Average Price remained the primary benchmark in algorithmic trading for so many years? What are the properties of algorithms such as Target Percentage of Volume that make them desirable for portfolio managers and traders?...
Most of today's process implementations are not contained neatly in their own top tiers of the enterprise architecture, providing a simple translation from business needs to process implementations. Rather, the current Business Process Management stack is scattered across different levels of infrastructure as its designers require. Moreover, any serious process...
Today's energy trading, transaction and risk management ETRM software solutions are highly configurable and flexible tools. The flipside of configurability really comes into play as a key issue during implementation of the project when the system's overall complexity can be a daunting challenge for a group of integrators whose only...
The roadmap to eGovernance implementation is uncharted, can be long and, sometimes, tortuous. This white paper is an attempt to provide a quasi ground-truth for a successful walk-through to eGovernance implementation. This paper provides a checklist of salient features that warrant consideration in making the transition to an eGovernance implementation.
While hospitals are increasingly employing bar code technology to help them automate a variety of tasks, another technology is angling to edge bar codes into obsolescence. Radio frequency identification RFID isn't a household term, yet it's something we're all familiar with in one form or another. The technology involves semiconductor...
