David Sammon

David Sammon is a lecturer in Business Information Systems at University College Cork, Ireland. David holds a B.A. in Economics and an M.Sc. in Management Information Systems from University College Cork. His current research interests focus on decision making and organisational experiences around Data Warehousing and Enterprise Resource Planning systems implementation. He has presented his research at major international conferences in Europe and in the United States and published in top ranking international journals including: Information Systems Journal and DATABASE.

Publications

An Extended Model of Decision Making: A Devil’s Advocate Workshop
An Extended Model of Decision Making: A Devil’s Advocate Workshop
David Sammon. © 2011. 10 pages.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) packages can be described as the most sought after means of organisational transformation and IT innovation since the mid 1990s. Over the past...
Reforming Public Healthcare in the Republic of Ireland with Information Systems: A Comparative Study with the Private Sector
Reforming Public Healthcare in the Republic of Ireland with Information Systems: A Comparative Study with the Private Sector
David Sammon, Frederic Adam. © 2010. 21 pages.
The need for reforming public healthcare towards greater efficiency and measurable returns on investment has been felt by governments in many countries. In Ireland, this led to...
Agile Methodology Adoption
Agile Methodology Adoption
John McAvoy, David Sammon. © 2009. 6 pages.
Discussions on agile software development methodologies have a tendency to develop into an argument between proponents of agile methods and proponents of more traditional...
Reforming Public Healthcare in the Republic of Ireland with Information Systems: A Comparative Study with the Private Sector
Reforming Public Healthcare in the Republic of Ireland with Information Systems: A Comparative Study with the Private Sector
David Sammon, Frederic Adam. © 2008. 24 pages.
The need for reforming public healthcare towards greater efficiency and measurable returns on investment has been felt by governments in many countries. In Ireland, this led to...
An Extended Model of Decision Making: A Devil's Advocate Workshop
An Extended Model of Decision Making: A Devil's Advocate Workshop
David Sammon. © 2008. 8 pages.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) packages can be described as the most sought after means of organisational transformation and IT innovation since the mid 1990s. Over the past...
Understanding Non-Decision Making
Understanding Non-Decision Making
David Sammon. © 2008. 6 pages.
Non-decision making (NDM) has received limited attention in the research literature. However, this is surprising bearing in mind that the concept of NDM (the impact of the...
Understanding Sense-Making
Understanding Sense-Making
David Sammon. © 2008. 6 pages.
The relevance of decision-making theory in improving understanding has been called into question especially when attempting to understand organisational environments faced with...
Defining and Understanding ERP Systems
Defining and Understanding ERP Systems
David Sammon, Frédéric Adam. © 2005. 7 pages.
The last 15 years have seen the emergence on the software market of a category of software called Enterprise Resource Planning systems or ERP, which has become the focus of both...
The Enterprise Resource Planning Decade: Lessons Learned and Issues for the Future
The Enterprise Resource Planning Decade: Lessons Learned and Issues for the Future
Frederic Adam, David Sammon. © 2004. 308 pages.
The Enterprise Resource Planning Decade: Lessons Learned and Issues for the Future presents a collection of chapters written by various experts that share a interest in the ERP...
Setting the Scene-Defining and Understanding ERP Systems
Setting the Scene-Defining and Understanding ERP Systems
David Sammon, Frédéric Adam. © 2004. 21 pages.
This introduction chapter briefly retraces the emergence of the concept of enterprise-wide system and provides a complete overview of the definitions that have been proposed for...
ERP Software Selection-Widening the Current Debate
ERP Software Selection-Widening the Current Debate
David Sammon, Frédéric Adam. © 2004. 14 pages.
This chapter reflects on the nature of managerial decision making in the case of ERP projects. It draws on the increasing volume of organisational ERP literature now being...
An Examination of an ERP Software Selection Process: An Irish Case Study
An Examination of an ERP Software Selection Process: An Irish Case Study
David Sammon, Daivd Lawlor. © 2004. 22 pages.
In this chapter a case study of a world-class manufacturing organisation implementing SAP is purposefully used to demonstrate the influence of bias over requirements in the...
Implementing ERP-What Happens to Competitive Advantages?
Implementing ERP-What Happens to Competitive Advantages?
David Sammon, Frédéric Adam, Kevin Higgins, Mark Synnott. © 2004. 29 pages.
Over the last 30 years, the enterprise-wide systems movement has been gathering momentum and has now reached a global dimension, with companies across the world and, more...
Toward a Model of Organizational Prerequisites for ERP: Reintroducing the Concept of Data Warehousing
Toward a Model of Organizational Prerequisites for ERP: Reintroducing the Concept of Data Warehousing
David Sammon, Frédéric Adam. © 2004. 19 pages.
Data Warehousing was the ‘hot topic’ of the early-to-mid 1990’s but it became unfashionable through the mid-to-late 1990s with the widespread implementation of ERP systems....
Toward a Model of Investigating Non-Decision Making ERP Communities
Toward a Model of Investigating Non-Decision Making ERP Communities
David Sammon, Frédéric Adam. © 2004. 22 pages.
This chapter proposes to reframe current research on decision making process in the area of ERP selection and implementation and to study ERP communities, defined here as triadic...
Re-Examining the ERP Concept: Toward an Agenda for Reducing the Unbalance Between the Push and Pull Sides on the ERP Market
Re-Examining the ERP Concept: Toward an Agenda for Reducing the Unbalance Between the Push and Pull Sides on the ERP Market
David Sammon, Frédéric Adam. © 2004. 15 pages.
In this chapter we use the concept of discourse to provide an insight into the current structure of the ERP market, from the perspective of an organisation adopting ERP. We...
Looking to the Future of Enterprise-Wide Systems
Looking to the Future of Enterprise-Wide Systems
Frédéric Adam, David Sammon. © 2004. 6 pages.
Many readers of this book may come to the conclusion that the collection of chapters presented here yields more questions than answers. This may well be true, but it is more a...