Goals/questions/metrics method and SAP implementation projects

During the last years some researchers have studied the critical success factors (CSFs) in ERP implementations. However, until now, no one has studied how these CSFs should be put in practice to help organizations achieve success in ERP implementations. This technical research report attempts to define the usage of Goals/Questions/Metrics (GQM) approach in the definition of a measurement system for ERP implementation projects. GQM approach is a mechanism for defining and interpreting operational, measurable goals. Lately, because of its intuitive nature the approach has gained widespread appeal. We present a metrics overview and a description of GQM approach. Then we provide an example of GQM application for monitoring sustained management support in ERP implementations. Sustained management support is the most cited critical success factor in ERP implementation projects.Postprint (published version

Organizational and national issues of an ERP implementation in a Portuguese company

This technical research report describes a case of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation in a Portuguese SME. We focused on the identification of organizational factors that affect the ERP implementation project. We also analyzed the ERP implementation project from a national cultural perspective using Geert Hofstede's dimensions. These dimensions were used to explain some of the attitudes and behaviours during the ERP implementation project. The findings suggest that some of the problems in ERP implementation projects are not of technological nature but may be attributed to organizational factors while some issues related to national culture.Postprint (published version

A Framework proposal for monitoring and evaluating training in ERP implementation project

During the last years some researchers have studied the topic of critical success factors in ERP implementations, out of which 'training' is cited as one of the most ones. Up to this moment, there is not enough research on the management and operationalization of critical success factors within ERP implementation projects.Postprint (published version

Using the partial least squares (PLS) method to establish critical success factor interdependence in ERP implementation projects

This technical research report proposes the usage of a statistical approach named Partial Least squares (PLS) to define the relationships between critical success factors for ERP implementation projects. In previous research work, we developed a unified model of critical success factors for ERP implementation projects. Some researchers have evidenced the relationships between these critical success factors, however no one has defined in a formal way these relationships. PLS is one of the techniques of structural equation modeling approach. Therefore, in this report is presented an overview of this approach. We provide an example of PLS method modelling application; in this case we use two critical success factors. However, our project will be extended to all the critical success factors of our unified model. To compute the data, we are going to use PLS-graph developed by Wynne Chin.Postprint (published version

Technical Note TN 2.2 Fuel load sampling of a Cupressus sempervirens hedge

In this document, data from a destructive sampling of a Cupressus sempervirens hedgerow are shown, as well as the followed methodology. Measures of sizes and weights have been taken. With these data, moisture content, fuel load and bulk density have been calculated. Different fuel classes (state and diameter) have been taken into account.Postprint (updated version

Vico a modo mio

Un Vico multiforme, pluriversal, polifacético, es el Vico que el Autor plantea a partir de las propias lecturas de la obra del napolitano, de las interpretaciones de los muy distintos autores que han afrontado tanto al filósofo napolitano, como su obra, su vida, su figura. Un Vico dado también a través de la traducción, de la re-construcción de su propio pensar, tamizado por distintas tradiciones culturales, diferentes orientaciones hermenéuticas e historiográficas, diversas aproximaciones personales.A multiform, pluriversal, multifaceted Vico, is the one that the Author raises from his own readings of the work of the Neapolitan and from the interpretations of the very different authors who have confronted both the Neapolitan philosopher, his work, his life and his figure. A Vico that is also given through translation and through the re-construction of his own thinking, sifted by different cultural traditions, different hermeneutical and historiographical orientations, different personal approaches.Un Vico multiforme, pluriversale, poliedrico, è il Vico che l'Autore espone a partir dalle proprie letture dell'opera del filosofo napoletano e dalle interpretazioni dei diversi autori che hanno affrontato lo studio del pensatore napoletano, la sua opera, la sua vita e la sua figura. Un Vico che emerge anche dalla traduzione, dalla ricostruzione del proprio pensiero, vagliato da tradizioni culturali differenti, da orientamienti ermeneutici e storiografici distinti e da diversi approcci personali