accounting informations systems

Caldwell College Division of Business

BU 634 Accounting Information Systems Spring 2015

Assignment: Conduct research on CIO.com, CFO.com, library database or any other reliable source (not Wikipedia) for articles on ERP implementation success and failures. Using specific examples describe the reasons for successes and failures. Draw conclusions and back up your conclusions with facts from cited articles

Rubric for paper on implementation successes and failures

Topics/Quality Excellent Good Poor Quantity of the research 2 Cited, reliable and

relevant sources

2 Cited, somewhat

reliable but relevant sources

Less than 2 cited

sources or not reliable nor relevant

Specific examples of

successes and failures

Describe 4-5 examples of

successful and failed implementations in a clear

concise way

Describe 4-5

examples of successful and failed

implementations in a somewhat clear

concise way

Describe 3 or less

examples of successful and failed

implementations in a somewhat clear concise

way

Describe and interpret reasons stated for

success and failures

Correctly Interpret the stories and concisely

organize reasons for

successful and failed implementations

Correctly Interpret the stories and

concisely organize

reasons for successful and failed

implementations

Describe reasons for successes and failures

Draw Conclusions for the

failures

Include insight from the

articles and insight from

your own experience from the conclusion in the

articles

Include Insight from

the article’s

conclusions

Explain conclusions

without interpretation