Enterprise systems are very large computer systems that promise to replace major chunks of a company's applications infrastructure with an off-the-shelf, third-party package. In the early- to mid-1990s, they were primarily enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems that focused on integrating the back-office, transaction-based subsystems required to run modern companies.
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Surviving Enterprise Systems: Adaptive Strategies for Managing Your Largest IT Investments
Posted March 31, 2001 | Leadership |
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Robert D. Austin is a Cutter Consortium Fellow and a member of Arthur D. Little's AMP open consulting network. He is a regular speaker at the annual Cutter Summit and often delivers Cutter Bootcamps. Dr. Austin served as a professor on the faculty at Harvard Business School for more than a decade, and then as Professor of Management of Innovation & Digital Transformation at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. He is currently Professor… Read More
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