Enterprise information systems: Technology first or process first?

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-21

  Arif, Mohammed ^a   Kulonda, Dennis ^b   Jones, Jim ^c   Proctor, Michael ^b  

^a CARTHAGE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b University of Central Florida   (United States)

^c Xerox Quality Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Business process re engineering; Document management; Manufacturing resource planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844433804     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150510578692     Document Type: Review

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