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COVER
FEATURE
Intelligent
ERP Systems
- - Maria N Moreno Garcia
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are considered
to be the backbone of many organizations. Their capacity
of integrating information across diverse business applications
provides support in business process automation and
decision-making. The ERP projects are usually more focused
on recovering transactional features rather than improving
other important aspects such as their decision support
potential for strategic functions. This capability can
be achieved by incorporating business intelligence techniques
such as data mining. This article addresses the way
ERP systems can take advantage of these tools which
provide enterprise managers with intelligent mechanisms
for decision-making.
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2006 IUP . All Rights Reserved
COVER
FEATURE
Customized
ERP Projects : Toward Understanding their Sequential
Nature
- - Annika Andersson and Timothy L Wilson
Developing
and implementing customized IT systems can be frustrating
to both the developers and the users. From comprehensive
observations made from three case studies of Swedish
firms involved in developing and implementing ERP systems,
certain reflections might be made that suggest that
system development tends to occur by a series of sequential
projects. This article develops some background necessary
to understand the complexity that tends to arise in
these projects. An illustration is given from an example
obtained from the field, which reflects the observations
made from classical literature on adoption processes
and decision-making.
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2006 IUP . All Rights Reserved
COVER
FEATURE
Managing
ERP System Deployment : A Consideration of Best Practices
- - Richard M Kesner
A
comprehensive framework for the design and delivery
of project plans is necessary for effective ERP system
deployment. Internal Project Management Office addresses
all the problems related to the ongoing project management
process. The key to ERP success is the broad adoption
of simple, uniform yet flexible, and well-documented
processes by IT personnel in all ERP deployments.
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2006 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
PROJECT
RECRUITMENT
Hiring
for Team Fit
- - Johanna Rothman
Hiring
project team members has become a gigantic task for
project organizations. A hiring manager as a part of
analyzing the open position should not only understand
the role that a candidate is going to play, but also
how the organization and the team gets affected. Behavior-description
questions and auditions will essentially help hiring
managers to hire people who will truly fit into the
project team.
©
2005 Johanna Rothman.This article was originally published
in Cutter IT Journal, Vol. 18, No. 7, July 2005. Reprinted
with permission.
SOFTWARE
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Software
Project Scheduling under Uncertainties
- - Intaver Institute
Managing
risk and uncertainties during the course of a project
has become one of the priorities of the software project
manager. Any research and development projects are affected
by a large number of events, which can significantly
change the course of a project. These events may form
groups of related events or event chains. The article
discusses a proposed methodology of modeling the software
project scheduling using event chains, classification
of the events and chains, identification of critical
chains, analysis of the effect of the chains on project
duration, cost, and chance of project completion. The
article presents a practical approach to modeling and
visualizing event chains.
©
2005 Intaver Institute Inc.This article has been published
on www.intaver.com in March 2005. Reprinted with permission.
PROJECT
FINANCE
Rural
Infrastructure Development Fund : Empowering Projects
- - Deepak Kumar
The
article talks about how the rural infrastructure sector
has been taken care of by the Rural Infrastructure Development
Fund (RIDF). This is one of the financing models that
have been successful in India, as in this case the projects
are appraised, monitored and implemented by NABARD with
consultation of the state governments. The projects
are prioritized to create employment and improve the
quality of life.
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PROJECT
TIME MANAGEMENT
Managing
Activity Float Time in Projects
- - K Nagarajan
As the number of activities in a project increases,
scheduling is done through network-based techniques.
It involves arranging all the activities in the form
of a network and identifying the critical path. Project
resources are then allocated to each project activity
assuring the optimum utilization of available resources.
Effective management of floats (time for non-critical
activities) will help project managers keep time overrun
of projects under their control.
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2006 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
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