In this ERP era, the learning of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) has been common and popular in colleges or universities since that ERP system plays a critical role for assisting business operation and performance. However, to the student who lacks of practical experience and imagination about the real business, it is a challenge for learning and performance. This study proposes an i...

This study serves as a pilot study for a possible future study including the same variables. The purpose of the pilot study was to find a relationship in the college academic setting between academic self-efficacy, stress coping skills, and academic performance. Sixty-six undergraduate students, 17 male and 49 female, from a university in northwestern United States participated in the study. St...

This paper presents the results of three rounds Delphi study with 15 BI systems experts in the domain of engineering asset management The study provides a CSF framework that consists of seven dimensions and 22 factors crucial for successful BI system implementation. The seven critical dimensions of CSFs are management commitment and championship, user-oriented change management, business vision...

Describe business process redesign and its importance to new application development. Flickr’s Application Development 2.0 Method 16.1 The Framework of IT Application Acquisition 16.2 Identifying, Justifying, and Planning IT Systems Applications (Step 1) 16.3 Acquiring IT Applications: Available Options (Step 3) 16.4 Selecting an Acquisition Approach and Other Implementation Issues 16.5 Connect...

Speech pathology managers frequently move into careers beyond their clinical discipline. As practicing speech pathology managers and students of business leadership, we were curious about the nature of career transitions out of speech pathology management. We conducted an exploratory descriptive study investigating the perceived competencies that facilitate such career transitions and when furt...

In the field of manufacturing systems automated data acquisition and development of technological innovations like manufacturing execution systems (MES), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Advanced Planning Systems (APS) and new trends in Big Data and Business Intelligence (BI) have given rise to new applications and methods of existing decision support technologies. Today manufacturers need a...

While e-business has been playing an increasingly role in facilitating firms to conduct businesses, there is a dearth of research examing the antecedcents and outcomes of e-business use in the entrepreneurial small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs). Drawing upon the technology-organizationenvironment (TOE) framework and resource-based view (RBV) of the firm theory, we develop, theorize, and test an ...

In the EU, most large firms use e-business applications, such as enterprise resource planning and online procurement. Based on e-business watch data for EU-4 (Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom) we find that the actual use of enterprise resource planning and online procurement is positively correlated with labour productivity growth. Furthermore, we find that certain e-business appli...

During the past decade, many enterprises have been re-directing their resources into critical business areas to keep up with economic and market changes. They have adopted electronic business (EB) systems, such as supply chain management, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and enterprise application integration (EAI), to ensure seamless integration with internal processes as well as suppliers ...

in the course of their analyses. Underlying the BSP and BICS analyses are the data management problems that result from systems design approaches that optimize the management of technology at the expense of managing the data. Iri comparing BSP and BICS, jive similarities and five diflerences are selected for discussion, and, finally, the strengths and weaknesses of each methodology are noted. T...