Enterprise System Governance

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21st century is a growing market for software packages demanding to provide a total, integrated solution to companies’ information-processing needs. Even companies that choose to implement such packages are following aggressive approaches of systems integration by regenerating custom software and adopting technologies such as adopting Enterprise Systems (ES) (Markus & Tanis; 2000). Enterprise systems ought to have serious research attention because of their immense potential for financial, technical, managerial, human, and strategic benefits, costs, and risks (Markus & Tanis; 2000). The technical difficulties and high failure rate in implementing enterprise systems have been widely cited in the literature (Davenport, 1998), but research on governance for enterprise systems implementation is uncommon and uneven. To date, little has been done to theorize the important forecasters for initial and on-going governance success (Grabski et al. 2011). This research is an effort to achieve that, It examine evaluates & identifies governance for Enterprise systems & categorizes them into the respective phases in the enterprise systems experience life cycle model (See Figure-1) proposed by Markus and Tanis (2000), and discusses how governance can be effectively communicated in the enterprise systems environment for enterprises.

The justification for the selection of this model is that this framework allows researchers to calculate or explain an organization’s actual ES accomplishments and successes in an organized way. By using this framework it allows critical implications to be discovered at each stage of the implementation cycle so that we could identify potential problems and provide recommendations to alleviate or resolve issues befo...

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