Organizational impact on project management in financial data warehousing: A case study

16th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Räkers, Marc ^a   Rosenkranz, Christoph ^b  

^a Zeb/InformationTechnology   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Communication; Financial data warehousing; Organization; Project management; Viable system model

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS UNITS; COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS; COMPLEX PROBLEMS; FINANCIAL DATA; FINANCIAL INDUSTRY; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING; ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACTS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; PRODUCT PORTFOLIOS; PROJECT STAKEHOLDERS; TEAM MEMBERS; VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL;

COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

DATA WAREHOUSES;

EID: 84870639578     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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