Chetan Sankar

This article develops a Sustainability Informatics Framework, a framework that connects Information Technology with sustainability and is based on the Belief-Action-Outcome and...

This article develops a Sustainability Informatics Framework, a framework that connects Information Technology with sustainability and is based on the Belief-Action-Outcome and...

Using the Goodman and Beenen (2008) organizational learning contract framework as a diagnostic tool, this study investigates the effectiveness of an academic institution’s...

For college graduates to be successful in today’s global economy there has been an increasing demand for them to possess business knowledge as well as technical knowledge. To...

This paper reports the results of an exploratory research that describes the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation experiences of Robert Bosch Corporation over a...

This paper reports the results of an exploratory research that describes the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation experiences of Robert Bosch Corporation over a...

For college graduates to be successful in today’s global economy there has been an increasing demand for them to possess business knowledge as well as technical knowledge. To...

It is important for those in charge of implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to identify and understand the issues they face. Implementation Strategies for...

A report, entitled “Benchmarking University-Industry Technology Transfer in the South and the EPSCoR States,” by Waugaman and Tornatzky (1998) found that universities in Alabama...

• Identify why Enterprise Resource Systems (ERP) have emerged as a critical success factor for companies • Understand that the market for ERP systems is growing rapidly • Know...

• Understand different organization structure of multinational corporations • Apply the organization structure models to analyze the global organization structure of Robert Bosch...

• Understand the interrelationship between MRP, MRP II, and ERP • Be able to explain the components of an ERP system • Have a basic understanding of the technical architecture of...

• Understand the need for change and the role of ERP systems in change management • Identify phases in the change management life cycle • Obtain a broad understanding of the...

• Understand the fundamentals of relational database management systems • Be able to define technical terms such as single instance and normalization • Be aware of how database...

• Understand the importance of aligning the business and IT strategies in a company at both corporate level and country level • Identify the issues faced by RBUS in moving to a...

• Understand in detail how an ERP system can be implemented in differing ways in a company, with resulting benefits and problems • To show with a detailed industry example how if...

• Analyze the case study presented in earlier chapters (1992-1999), noting the connections between theory and practice • Compare your analysis with that of the authors •...

• Understand changes to the organization during 2000-2004 • Discuss the status of SAP R/3 implementation for RBUS • Understand the status of SAP R/3 implementation for RB GmbH •...

• Be able to provide an analysis of the case study regarding process design changes and integration with other software systems in the future • Understand how to simplify the...

• Discuss how an ERP system was implemented at Sidler GmbH • Address the decision-making process in selecting SAP as a company’s new ERP system, and managing continuing problems...

• Summarize the SAP R/3 implementation experience of Robert Bosch GmbH and Robert Bosch US • Review the inventory of skills that you improved by analyzing the case study •...

Researchers and major computing associations such as the Association of Information Systems (AIS) and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) have invested much effort in...

This chapter provides a new perspective on the competitive advantage of electronic mail within organizations. Essentially, e-mail assists individuals with efficiency and...

The success of an organization depends on rapid, reliable, and direct communications within the organization and with the outside world. To determine if electronic mail (e-mail)...

S. Sampathkumar graduated in mechanical engineering from the Alagappa Chettiar College of Technology in India in 1968. During 1968-73, he created the textile processing...

This study investigated, in an experimental setting, the understanding and use of object-oriented database design concepts in designing databases. There are many varieties of...

Sam (Satyan) Pitroda is an entrepreneur who was responsible for developing the early versions of distributed processing based digital PBXs in the United States of America. After...

Although the success of large DB design in companies is, in part, dependent on the performance of information systems (IS) professionals, research on their performance...

The globalization of telecommunications markets is of primary concern for today’s large telecommunications carriers. International business telecommunications is growing at a...

Providing credit information about people to corporate customers is a growth business in the U.S. We discuss the network of a company that collects information about the credit...

There are no established criteria to evaluate how well data dictionaries and repositories eliminate redundancy and help retrieve meaningful data elements in response to a query....