16th
February
2007
Starting one’s own company is the dream of thousands of people. But starting a business, transforming the ideas into products and services, building a team, getting finance, marketing the products and services, attracting and retaining customers, making the business a success, sustaining the success and growth is a very hard and arduous task that requires creativity, imagination, determination, hard work, knowledge of the business, and some amount of luck.
Starting a company and making it capable of surviving and thriving in this brutally competitive world requires a lot of effort and one has to do a lot of things right—right at the first time as you might not get a second chance. In this context, the experiences of people who have started and succeeded, the lessons they learned, the wisdom they gained, etc. have great value. These knowledge and wisdom could help a person who is planning to start his won business or a person who have just started her business.
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6th
February
2007
ERP stands for “enterprise resource planning.” The definition of enterprise resource planning is, essentially, an integrated software solution used to manage a company’s resources. Business planning systems have been evolving for decades, and ERP is the current generation.
The ERP implementation cycle is characterized by complexity, uncertainty and a long time-scale. It is about people and issues that affect the business—it is a multi-disciplinary effort. This book deals with the different phases of the ERP implementation life cycle. This book will help you in avoiding the pitfalls of implementation, in doing your pre-implementation planning, and in successfully transforming your organization to the new system once the implementation is successfully completed.
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3rd
December
2006
One of the most exciting developments in business today is Enterprise Resource Planning. ERP offers a wealth of opportunities for increased productivity by bringing a company’s many different systems together into one large integrated system.
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the world of Enterprise Resource Planning provides the necessary background for success in today’s marketplace. It provides a solid grounding in how ERP systems help companies to integrate the different business functions.
The book contains 6 chapters in addition to the preface, glossary, references and an index. Each chapter contains the summary of learning objectives, introduction, exercises, summary, and end notes. The author makes use of ample illustrations, bulleted lists, and tables to explain the concepts clearly and concisely.
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18th
November
2006
ERP systems have become very important for the survival of today’s organizations. This book discusses the scope of ERP systems implementation, explains the competitive advantages of using ERP systems, and support general concepts with short case studies.
The book contains 11 chapters that starts with the fundamental concepts and then go on to discuss the advanced issues. The chapters deals with topics like the concept of ERP, its evolution, ERP modules, the package selection process, business process reengineering (BPR) and its connection with ERP, implementation options, ERP project management, operation and maintenance, business intelligence systems, ERP and supply chains, security issues, and future trends. The book has a preface and an index in addition to the 15 chapters.
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