{"id":3778,"date":"2020-12-05T23:17:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T04:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5121fall16\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2018-12-07T12:12:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:12:06","slug":"8-years-1-bn-erp-system-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5121sec701fall2019\/2020\/12\/05\/8-years-1-bn-erp-system-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"8 years, $1 Bn ERP System &#8211; Worth It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a related post I copied an\u00a0WSJ article that discusses a very large ERP system implementation at Dow Chemical. \u00a0The system\u00a0processes ~ 7 million transactions \/\u00a0day and counts &gt;\u00a016,000 unique daily users.<\/p>\n<p>Note: I was a member of this implementation team (i.e. a very small portion of the $1Bn paid my salary).<\/p>\n<p>You can answer one of these questions as an alternate ? for this week:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Why would an implementation take this long and cost so much?<\/li>\n<li>Given the information shared &#8211; why would Dow Chemical company approve such a large investment?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a related post I copied an\u00a0WSJ article that discusses a very large ERP system implementation at Dow Chemical. \u00a0The system\u00a0processes ~ 7 million transactions \/\u00a0day and counts &gt;\u00a016,000 unique daily users. Note: I was a member of this implementation team (i.e. a very small portion of the $1Bn paid my salary). You can answer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22812,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[684819],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-14-maturity-models","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5121sec701fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5121sec701fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5121sec701fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5121sec701fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5121sec701fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5121sec701fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4887,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5121sec701fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions\/4887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5121sec701fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5121sec701fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5121sec701fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}