Does Best Practice Makes Perfect? Fitting Off-the-Shelf Applications to Meet Your Needs

Posted August 31, 2006 | Leadership |
Does Best Practice Makes Perfect? Fitting Off-the-Shelf Applications to Meet Your Needs

In this issue of CBR, Erica and Sue bring to bear their years of studying enterprise systems (ES) and best practice software implementations to frame the survey. They use the survey as a springboard to draw conclusions about the opportunities and pitfalls presented by the buy-and-make paradigm. But, in good old Cutter style, they don't shy away from challenging vendor (and executive!) rhetoric.

About The Author
Gabriele Piccoli
Gabriele Piccoli is a Fellow with Cutter Consortium, a member of Arthur D. Little's AMP open consulting network, and the Editor Emeritus of Cutter Benchmark Review. Dr. Piccoli is the Edward G. Schlieder Endowed Chair of Information Sciences at Louisiana State University's E.J. Ourso College of Business, and Director of the Digital Data Streams Lab. His consulting, research, and teaching expertise is in strategic information systems and the use… Read More
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