Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the current literature on data governance in scientific and practice-oriented publications, and to provide a comparative analysis of the activities reported for data governance. Data have become a key organisational asset and data governance both...

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to present a case study of an organisation in pursuit of becoming a 100 per cent e‐corporation. Design/methodology/approach – This exploratory research case study documents the deployment of two e‐supply chain initiatives undertaken by the...

Purpose – The success rate of enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations is not high in view of the sums invested by organisations in these applications. It has often been indicated that a combination of inadequate preparedness and inappropriate project management have been responsible...

Purpose – The need for an integrated enterprise‐wide approach to management information pronounced data warehousing (DW) the “hot topic” of the early‐to‐mid‐1990s. However, it became unfashionable in the late 1990s, with the widespread implementation of enterprise resource planning...

1. Setting the scene : defining and understanding ERP systems / David Sammon, Frédéric Adam -- 2. The road to ERP : has industry learned or revolved back to the start? / Bill O'Gorman -- 3. Investigating the rationale of ERP / Eleanor Doyle, Frédéric Adam -- 4. ERP software selection :...