[Sigkm-l] Knowledge at W. P. Carey: Why ERP systems face extinction

[Mark Montgomery]

This article has been forwarded to you at the request of markm at kyield.com

Excellent article on ERP software systems (agreeing with what I and others 
have been preaching for years....). If prediction is true, and I think it 
is- consider the impending changes ahead. - MM
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IT evolution: Why ERP systems face extinction

http://knowledge.wpcarey.asu.edu/index.cfm?fa=viewfeature&id=1378

With any luck at all, there isn't a giant asteroid headed our way soon, but 
in the world of information technology, an extinction event may be on the 
horizon. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems -- those monolithic 
software packages that evolved to tame companywide data -- may be heading 
the way of trilobites and dinosaurs. Once in place, ERP systems are rigid, 
says Julie Smith David, an associate professor of information systems at the 
W. P. Carey School of Business -- not the adaptive trait that leads to 
success in a dynamic environment.

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