When managers consider making an investment in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), as with any other investment, a major concern is whether this investment will add value to their organization. This paper suggests that performance differences across firms investing in similar ERP systems can be attributed to the way the technology is integrated with the actual IT infrastructure and business pro...

Platform planning is a strategy that can be effectively used to manage today’s rapidly changing environment. It is the process by which core elements are identified and used as a foundation for future growth. Although platform planning is most often associated with product design, its value is now being acknowledged along other dimensions of marketing strategy such as brands, target markets, ge...

The purposes of this paper are to address the declining management information systems (MIS) enrolment problem, to suggest an enterprise resource planning (ERP)-based MIS curriculum which could reverse the enrolment decline, and to facilitate ERP integration in the business curriculum by analysing ERP software usage across industries. Enterprise resource planning systems are popular today becau...

The Add-Wijzer project set out to demonstrate the business value of public sector information exploitation by making ‘law information’ more accessible in support of business planning by professionals who are not lawyers. The public-private partnership formed for this task have shown that integration of various businessrelevant data sources along with geographical information and tools can incre...

Integration between business planning and information systems (IS) planning is considered an important enabler of business IS alignment. A content analysis of IS plans was conducted to identify stages of integration between business and IS planning. The companies studied were also classified according to value configurations and eras of IS growth. Empirical results indicate that companies class...

We present a neglected heterodox version of Zeno’s paradox of the Stadium, underlining some problems that a discrete kinematics would have to account for. Building on our reconstruction of the Stadium argument we provide new arguments to show that a discrete kinematics cannot uphold three independently plausible assumptions about motion, that we label No Switching, Granular Continuity and Diffe...

This paper focuses on the interaction of chains of coreference identity with other types of relations, comparing English and German data sets in terms of language, mode (written vs. spoken) and register. We first describe the types of coreference and the chain features analysed as indicators of textual coherence and topic continuity. After sketching the feature categories under analysis and the...

Because of the increasing importance of ERP systems and their educational value, as well as the rapidly changing ERP market, many universities use or want to use ERP systems for their courses. The aim of these courses is to teach and demonstrate different ERP related concepts and processes. To support these courses, some ERP manufacturers co-operate closely with universities and offer their sys...

By applying a Fourier analytic argument, we prove that, for every α ∈ (0, 2), the N -parameter harmonizable fractional α-stable field (HFαSF) is locally nondeterministic. When 0 < α < 1, this solves an open problem in [15]. Also, it allows us to establish the joint continuity of the local times of an (N, d)-HFαSF for an arbitrary α ∈ (0, 2), and to obtain new results concerning its sample paths...