Research - Project Management factors in Successful ERP Implementation

[Former Member]

Hi all,

I already posted this topic under ERP and I just copied the following text, hoping to get more responses:

I am an Honours student of the Edinburgh Napier University who is undertaking an academic thesis entitled u201CProject Management factors in Successful ERP Implementationu201D.

I hope to examine whether typical project management issues such as controlling costs, limiting overruns, managing scope creep, realisation of benefits, assessments of risks and risk management were significant factors during implementations.

To this end I would like to distribute a web based questionnaire to individuals/organisations who have gone through a SAP implementation.

I would be extremely grateful if you could complete the questionnaire.

http://bit.ly/de5pEt

Obviously the results would be collated and analysed anonymously and we would be more than happy to share the results of the research.

Kind regards,

Anna Widenmaier

[Former Member]

Not yet, but I already checked if the book is available in our library. Thanks again!

Anna

[Former Member]

Hi Matt,

thank you very much for completing my survey and I am also very grateful for the feedback.

I had questions about IT service companies before. But my questionnaire was too long and people stopped answering by the half. So I had to delete Questions. But this is a good point and I will use this for my dissertation for further research.

I am sorry and a kind of embarrassed, that my survey has some mistakes. The only problem is that I cannot edit them since it is open or I have to delete the responses.

I also agree that not everyone can complete the questionnaire. This is one of my biggest problems, because they start to answer the questions but without finishing it.

Cheers,

Anna

[matt]

You're welcome.

I don't know if it's on your reading list, but you might find Death March, by Yourdon, a useful source of project management information.

matt

[matt]

There is a major industry sector missing from your survey. Much of the work of ERP implementations is done by IT service companies - consultancies, and by freelance IT workers - contractors.

I have been involved with ERP implementations in many industries. And "Manufacturing" covers many different industries in itself - food, pharma, defence,...

Also, I doubt many people would be able to answer all your questions with accuracy.

To be helpful I've completed the survey on the basis of one of my clients.

On question 21, you've got "If yes, go to 23, if no, go to 23" (and you've missed the U out of question...)