Information system implementation converts business performance problems
Submitted by bcfc on August 19th, 2008
Information system planning often only plans system implementation
Enterprises make large investments to implement all kinds of resource planning, human resource, accounting, customer, logistics, manufacturing, and other information systems. The objective of many of our business change projects is information system implementation that converts existing business operations and data. When you ask anyone involved what they are doing they answer “implementing a new system” or what is their objective they answer “to get he system into operation”. Management consultants have methodologies to implement information systems. The information system implementation objective prevents the needed benefit from business change.
System implementation converts existing business problems to the new system
Is system implementation the proper objective? Does system implementation make existing business problems converted to the new system easier or harder to solve? What is the benefit of system implementation? System specification, acquisition, development, implementation, and operation are all costs and provide no benefit, per se. So we are always implementing costs with no attention to developing benefits.< [more...].
