DOES INTEGRATED PROJECT PLANING WORK WHEN MULTI-CULTURAL FORCES ARE AT PLAY?

Based upon a pan-European Business Process Reengineering initiative and the need to solve the year-2000 problem, most of the companies IT systems had to be replaced. The scope was to replace the systems in headquarters, European affiliates and manufacturing plants with a new Enterprise Resource Planing System and integrated point solutions.

A description of the different views of the project, local versus European, will present an overview of the project’s scope and how the Italian project was in...