Enterprise System: Drivers, Contributions, and Change Management

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Enterprise System
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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................2
Discussion:.......................................................................................................................................3
Principal Drivers Behind Businesses in Adopting Enterprise Systems...........................................3
Contributions of Enterprise Systems to Organizational Performance and Ways of Measuring It. .5
Organizational Change Management Considerations for Successful Adoption of Enterprise
System..............................................................................................................................................7
Conclusion:....................................................................................................................................10
References:....................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction:
The essay provides an insight into the concept of enterprise system adopted by business.
Enterprise system represents huge scale software packages that are capable of tracking and
controlling complicated operations of business. The systems mostly act as the central command
hub for helping in business automation and ensuring easier decision making and reporting. Small
businesses implements enterprise system for gaining company wide access in attaining business
knowledge, minimize duplication of data and increase in productivity of the employees(Sykes,
Venkatesh and Johnson 2014). The system even enables a business in reducing cost of
information technology and minimizes the manual input of the data. In other words, enterprise
system influence the business by helping them in storing data in the usable format, automate
process of customer service for employees, scale the available resources, minimize the reliability
of the IT infrastructure, secure the customer data, ensure real time access to the information and
reduce the cost of doing the business. The enterprise system is an overall combination of the
computer software and hardware that is used by business for running and organizing the
operations (Rice 2013). It is to be noted that an integrated enterprise system will be capable of
handling innumerable operations in a company thereby facilitating reporting needs of the
management and business.
The report commences with a discussion on the principal drivers of the business in
adopting the Enterprise Systems. The report also discusses about how the Enterprise Systems is
able to contribute to the organizational performance and ways adopted in measuring such
contribution. The report also discusses about the change management considerations of an
organization required for the adoption of Enterprise System.

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Discussion:
Principal Drivers Behind Businesses in Adopting Enterprise Systems
Enterprise Systems are used as the hub of central command in order to automate business
and ensure easier decision making and reporting (Goodyear 2017). One of the principal drivers
for businesses in adopting the enterprise system is ensuring its safety. Often it is found that the
regular system of management provides employees with complete access on critical data
including pay slips and accounting documents. The Enterprise System aids in establishing
minimum control by restricting the accounts to the team by providing access to operations that
seems relevant for the position. Besides, hosting an ERP on private cloud provides higher level
of safety that helps in ensuring protection of data in the cloud.
Businesses are also driven towards the Enterprise Systems for increasing their
productivity. This is because extensive solutions does not always provide a better solution and
can be quite expensive. Besides, an employee performing a repetitive task results in wastage of
time. The Enterprise System helps in deleting the repetitive acts without doubling, tripling or
quadrupling the data entries (Ann Sykes 2015). In addition to this, ERP reduce the need for
entering manual data thereby rationalizing management process. Process automation and
financial transaction is another principle driver for the businesses in adopting the enterprise
system (Powell, Riezebos and Strandhagen 2013). This is because a good ERP helps in
automatically recording the current transactions the moment it occurs. These include invoice
management, inventory movement and calculation of tax, production cost and the spending of
the credit card expenses.