Forecasting ERP implementation success - Towards a grounded framework

The continuing soar in popularity when it comes to standardized information systems sold en masse under the labelling of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems is somewhat kept under control by the ever flowing stream of reports from the industry of implementations gone bad. According to some researchers it is possible to assume that as many as 90% of all initiated ERP implementation projects can be regarded as failures as a result of changes in scope, prolongation of the project time or simply budget overruns. With the implementation of an ERP system being a very costly and risky endeavour, organizations considering "getting on the bandwagon" stand much to gain from pre-emptively forecasting the probability of success for an ERP implementation in their enterprise. Given this, the purpose of this paper is to investigate a possible conceptual framework for forecasting ERP implementation success and discuss the role of such a framework in a software based tool. This was ac...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ECIS
• Authors: Johan Magnusson, Andreas Nilsson, Fredrik Carlsson
• Keywords: ECIS 2004, ERP Implementation, ERP Implementation Projects, ERP Implementation Success, Information Technology