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Bottom-Up Enterprise Information Systems: Rethinking the Roles of Central IT Departments
Communications of the ACM
  • Cecil Eng Huang Chua, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Veda C. Storey
Abstract

Cross-functional, enterprise, and infrastructure systems integrate information across an organization for use by multiple stakeholders. Development or configuration of these large, multimillion-dollar projects is normally overseen by top management in conjunction with the central information technology (IT) department. There is, however, an increasing number of such systems arising from functional areas or departments in which users work, with central IT and top management being challenged to implement controls on these systems only after they go live.

Department(s)
Business and Information Technology
Comments
This research was supported by DesignerTech, the University of Auckland, and the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.
Keywords and Phrases
  • Computer applications,
  • Computer science, Bottom up,
  • Cross-functional,
  • Enterprise information system,
  • Functional areas,
  • Infrastructure systems,
  • Multiple stakeholders,
  • nocv1,
  • Top management, Information systems
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2017 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
1-1-2017
Publication Date
01 Jan 2017
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Citation Information
Cecil Eng Huang Chua and Veda C. Storey. "Bottom-Up Enterprise Information Systems: Rethinking the Roles of Central IT Departments" Communications of the ACM Vol. 60 Iss. 1 (2017) p. 66 - 72 ISSN: 0001-0782
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/cecil-chua/7/