AFM241 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Information Technology Management, Business Intelligence, Top Priority

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Accounting & Financial Management
• Course: AFM241
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Enterprise system (es): a system that, when successfully implemented, links all primary and support activities with an firm into a comprehensive and integrated system that is based on a shared database. Es implementation scope: the rationale and justification a firm uses to implement an. Physical scope: determines whether the implementation will cover one or multiple sites within one geographic region versus multiple sites scattered across many different national or in ternational regions. As the physical scope of the project increases, the complexity, cost, and implementation time rise. Business process re-engineering (bpr) scope: the opportunity or challenge of whether to re-engineer the firm"s business processes. Bpr: the first step during which the firm changes its business processes. The firm maps its business processes onto the es, this approach is called vanilla" implementation. Technical scope: the decision of how much the es system is to be modified and customized.