Assignment: ERP and New Organizational Capabilities

ERP enabling new organizational capabilities, enhancing the organizationÂ's ability to adapt to change, and creating new knowledge and performance measures, and revealing a strategic horizon. ERP systems delivered rich and valuable new functionality. ERP revealed a new strategic horizon for the college that is responsive to long-term socioeconomic trends. Â
According to Langabeer (2008), in health care, ERP plays an important but somewhat reduced role. ERPs were designed to integrate, or consolidate, all data and processes to eliminate redundant technology and business processes, to eliminate double-keying of information into multiple information systems, and to ensure a comprehensive view of the entire operation (p.318).Â

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

1. Describe the organizational impact of a newly implemented ERP system.

2. Describe new organizational capabilities of typical ERP systems.

3. Describe the ability of the organization to adapt to change on ERP implementation.

4. Describe ERP ability to create new knowledge and measure performance.

5. Describe the ability of the organization to reveal strategic horizons with ERP implementations.

6. Describe the CEO's role as a change agent.

7. Identify elements of strategic IT change management.

8. Describe elements of IT innovation.