Book description
Step-by-step guidance to achieving maximum return on investment for
your company
Written by Arthur Worster, Thomas Weirich, and Frank Andera, industry
experts at the forefront of the business processes arena,
Maximizing Return on Investment Using ERP Applications
provides accountants, IT executives, and finance professionals with a
new way of looking at enterprise resource planning (ERP)-driven
business improvement programs. This timely book explores how
leadership can view its organization as an integrated enterprise and
what this change in perception might suggest. It considers various
aspects of running a business and how a different approach may present
new insight.
- Incorporates all aspects of gaining "Return on
Investment" from ERP investments
- Considers change management from all angles, including working
with the executive levels on defining return on investment cases,
working through political and cultural issues at the executive
leadership level
- Includes a companion website featuring exercises, reference
materials, and case studies
With the rapid implementation of ERP systems worldwide, business
executives often have difficulty in determining the return on
investment from such systems. Along with a companion website featuring
exercises, reference materials, and case studies, Maximizing Return
on Investment Using ERP Applications offers straightforward and
hands-on guidance to lead your organization through the change process
and ensure that the intended benefits can be achieved.
ARTHUR J. WORSTER is President of Worster Associates, LLC. As a
business executive and later a global consulting leader, he developed
and utilized methodologies to implement IT-supported change in Fortune
500 companies. He has also served as program consultant to a number of
companies and executives.
THOMAS R. WEIRICH, PhD, CPA, is the Jerry and Felicia Campbell
Endowed Professor of Accounting at Central Michigan University (CMU)
and former chair of its School of Accounting. He has public accounting
experience with both international and domestic firms and has served
in the Office of Chief Accountant at the U. S. Securities &
Exchange Commission.
FRANK ANDERA, EDD, is professor and past chairman of the
Department of Business Information Systems at Central Michigan
University. He is the Director of the SAP University Alliances program
at CMU and an active member and participant in SAP University
Alliances international and statewide programs.
