Week 3 assignment

I completed and submitted the assignment by the deadline. For the assignment, I selected two companies that used/considered ERP to improve their supply chain as well as global operations. Both companies prefer to use one ERP vendor. From my readings, the companies seemed: (1) thorough (they planned well - considered various options, understood issues, and so on), (2) willing to invest / spend a lot to get quality work, and (3) willing to take on some risks. One company went ahead with a SAP release (over a long Labor Day weekend), even though a consultant identified issues that could be a problem - maybe timing was important. There were serious issues.

The presentation:
http://www.academia.edu/34596450/Enterprise_Resource_Planning_ERP_  (notes not shown)
https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.32920.49926 (ResearchGate)

Working on week 3 assignment

This week's assignment - the week 3 assignment - is a presentation on ERP. I am making good progress. I thought about what business area/processes I wanted to focus on, developed a preliminary presentation outline, and started putting the presentation together. Of course, last week's paper gave me a headstart. The paper included a lot of details about ERP.

(It is interesting that there is a lot of intersection in the assignments so far. The focus for week 2's assignment was planning - there was a lot of planning details/issues in the week 1 assignment. The focus for the week 3 assignment is ERP projects - the week 2 assignment included a lot of information on ERP projects.)

I will include different projects/examples in the week 3 assignment. I will learn more that way.
Work continues.

Week 2 assignment

My submitted week 2 assignment:

Planning for Improvement and Modernization Of Processes Using Technology
(focus on EAI and ERP projects)
 http://www.academia.edu/34554443/Planning_for_Improvement_and_Modernization_Of_Processes_Using_Technology
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319663995_Planning_for_Improvement_and_Modernization_Of_Processes_Using_Technology

The week 1 presentation

Links to the presentation:

http://www.academia.edu/34460944/A_Computer_Company_-_New_Enterprise_Architecture
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319469463_A_Computer_Company-_New_Enterprise_Architecture

Related tweet: https://twitter.com/moorefo1/status/904723824243068930

Week 1 assignments

The first activity/assignment was due on 8/30/3017 (yesterday). Another assignment - a presentation - is due on Sunday. As usual, lots of work right out of the gate!

I finished the first activity by the deadline....

Initial notes:

Then some research:

The final draft for my post:

Next assignment:

 

New course started

This week, I start a new course:
MIS-7005 - Enterprise Network Architecture

Course start date: 8/28/2017.