Enterprise systems and business process agility - A case study

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Seethamraju, Ravi ^a   Seethamraju, Jaya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGILE PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS; CASE STUDY APPROACHES; COST-EFFICIENT; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURES; MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISE; VOLATILE ENVIRONMENTS;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 63349109892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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