Managing Adaptability, Intervention, and People in Enterprise Information Systems

Enterprise Information Systems (EIS), as business management systems, seek to combine all aspects of an organization. EIS facilitate enterprise-wide integrated information systems (IS) covering all functional areas of the organization and performing core business activities. In today’s uncertain and complex business environment, EIS are critical to organizations.

Managing Adaptability, Intervention, and People in Enterprise Information Systems highlights ongoing issues in three areas having implications for EIS: adaptability, intervention, and people. This book discusses the role of change management, conversion management, readiness management, knowledge management, e-business management, people management, and stakeholder management for a competitive advantage in EIS. Ongoing research on EIS is vital to provide insights into the challenges, issues, and solutions related to management of various aspects of EIS in our ever changing world.

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

• Case tools for system development
• Design, development, and outsourcing of ERP projects
• Enterprise-wide client-server architecture
• E-Procurement, Web-based logistics, and supply chain management
• ERP implementation and organizational and systems issues
• ERP systems and virtual enterprises
• Human-computer interaction on enterprise information systems
• Intranet and extranet business applications
• Knowledge-based systems engineering
• Modeling concepts and information integration tools
• Organizational issues on systems integration
• Strategic management information systems