ERP projects Internal Stakeholder network and how it influences the projects outcome
K. Jaaskelainen, L-F Pau

TL;DR
This paper investigates internal stakeholder interactions in ERP projects using social network analysis to understand their influence on project outcomes and offers recommendations for improved stakeholder management.
Contribution
It introduces a novel stakeholder network model for ERP projects and applies social network analysis to identify critical roles, bottlenecks, and conflicts affecting project success.
Findings
Project managers, business owners, and process owners are most critical.
Stakeholder centrality and conflicts influence project risks.
Recommendations include using social network tools for stakeholder monitoring.
Abstract
So far little effort has been put into researching the importance of internal ERP project stakeholders mutual interactions,realizing the projects complexity,influence on the whole organization, and high risk for a useful final outcome. This research analyzes the stakeholders interactions and positions in the project network, their criticality, potential bottlenecks and conflicts. The main methods used are Social Network Analysis, and the elicitation of drivers for the individual players. Information was collected from several stakeholders from three large ERP projects all in global companies headquartered in Finland, together with representatives from two different ERP vendors, and with two experienced ERP consultants. The analysis gives quantitative as well as qualitative characterization of stakeholder criticality (mostly the Project Manager(s), the Business Owner(s) and the Process…
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Taxonomy
TopicsERP Systems Implementation and Impact · Knowledge Management and Sharing · Information Technology Governance and Strategy
