Risk Factors in Enterprise-wide/ERP Projects

Some of the unique challenges in managing enterprise-wide projects which were highlighted through the findings included the challenge of re-engineering business processes to ‘fit’ the process which the ERP software supports.

Abstract

In the past several years many organizations have initiated enterprise-wide/ ERP projects, using such packages as SAP, PeopleSoft, and Oracle. These projects often represent the single largest investment in an information systems project in the history of these companies, and in many cases the largest single investment in any corporate-wide project.