CHAPTER 3

A Historical Business Perspective of ERP

“Senior business executives lack a well-established management process for taking charge of IT. Business managers consequently have not developed the kind of experience and expertise in IT that they have in finance, human resources, and accounting.”

—Peter G. W. Keen, Shaping the Future

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