The Decision to Invest in Information Systems: Case of Adopting ERP in the Moroccan Public Largest Companies

Abstract

The decision to invest in information systems can be considered as one of the major challenge that most organizations may face nowadays. Even if Moroccan public large companies are investing huge amount of resources in adopting ERP tools, they are giving little attention to the factors behind this decision. The problem of this article is to determine the criteria that need to be taken by the Moroccan public large organizations in order to invest in information systems? Too many companies and executives cannot answer to these questions and most of them have no clearly defined decision procedures to decide on their investments in technology and to manage it. The aim of this article is to develop a conceptual model related to the Moroccan context based on exploratory interviews and models proposed by previous authors regarding the specificity of Moroccan context. As a preliminary result, we've found that the technological, organizational and environmental contexts have a great influence on the decision to invest in IS, but with different intensity.

Challenges and Difficulties Related to Implement Integrated IS Project in Morocco: ERP Projects in Public University Case Study

“…There is no standard definition for the case study. We will define it as presented by [22,29], [25] and [29]. A case study examines a phenomenon in its natural setting, using multiple techniques such as data collection to gather information from one or several entities (individuals, groups or organizations).…”

“…Despite of the various difficulties associated with the implementation of ERP system in higher education institutions, the demand for a solution for integrating administrative duties in universities remains. In many universities in the united states, the ERP system are used for speeding up students' registration, on-line payment, generating reports for administration, track faculty teaching records, and checking lecturer and classroom availability for course scheduling [26,27,29]. In short, the demand for an integrated enterprise system to manage administrative tasks for universities continues to grow, for the purpose of efficient information management and streamlined data processing.…”