Doctoral methods of scientific inquiry aims at enabling the inquirer to unveil new information pertaining to particular subject from his/her perspectives of view at the same time not negating the prior scholarly works. The intent is to depict the relevance in conformance or departure from other scientist’s garnered information about particular subject or provide new knowledge base, which remains well supported by ardent evidence. One approach to achieve this is by use of positivism and paradigms, despite heavy critics on the role of philosophical assumptions. Post-positivism and positivism makes assumptions of objective world and search for facts in terms of specified correlations accompanied by associations and differences among variables follows suit. This is crucial in establishing data associations and relationships where statistical controls and quantitative approaches prove problematic.
Critical postmodernism, constructivism and interpretivism are other crucial data analysis and synthesis approaches. Enthusiasm of discovery is essential to help the researcher stick to laboratory benches and endure difficult problem solution approaches. At times scientists often encounters situations of fulfillment, frustrations and disappointment particularly when experiments fail due to poor design. No matter the challenges, the doctoral must take into consideration the methodology and results section of scientific inquiry to arrive at his/her roles, which include promotion of evidence affiliated management, leading, research and fostering social behavioral alterations.
With the modern incorporation of computers to control of virtually every activities of an organization, over the decades various ways are being sought control various data management strategies centrally. Enterprise resource management is an approach or a process of consolidation of the entire company’s departmental functions into subjection to control by a single integrated computer system. The system is campaigned for since despite replacement of all human function in the organization, it ensures productivity that contributes to overall success of an organization by ensuring ease of information ability whenever required.
Reading through various scholarly articles and journals inquiring on the capacity and possibility of fulfillment of dream of acquiring a single solution employing integrated software to achieve a seamless consolidation of company’s functions is advocated. Scrutiny of most cited examples of ERP software, customer ordering and delivery system hardly fails to surface. It is intention of the final project to evaluate the implication of the ERP system through scientific inquiry methodologies and provide forecast of feature place of ERP in the world of digitalization. This will be achieved through information gathering analysis and synthesis.
PhD scholars must keep at pace with scholarly literature. The various scholarly articles my take literature review, qualitative and quantitative study formats. All the scholarly journals clearly differentiate the topic under study from all other past scholarly works. Where information is required to be drawn from certain study’s results for the purposes of knowledge level addition or to avoid duplication of achievements is clearly indicated.
The author’s ultimate goals is to implicitly show in stepwise approach with each steep backed by evidence, the overall importance of the data collected, the analysis approach and interpretation of the results relevance to the topic under study. Authorship of each article is motivated by the desire to clear doubts in the mind of the scientific inquirer to, within no reasonable doubt, convince on the significance of findings of each study. Disciplined scientific inquiry demand the scientist not to ignore prior inquirers finding and their possibility in non-compliance to your results. No factor should be taken for granted, a non-viable or non-investigated assumption made. Where such assumptions are due, criteria for allocation of departure variables to the analysis tools are provided.
Process improvement, changing management and strategic alignment relate to business intelligence in that consistency of business strategies, IT organizational structures and processes and IT infrastructure are shaped appropriately in accordance with BI strategies. The necessary cohesion between the process, management and strategic alignment is crucial for the business-centric business intelligence to create rigorous business understanding, which captures mechanisms for value addition of particular BI projects or realization of existing opportunities captured in the business portfolio.
To enhance success of business strategies, business process should be consistent and reinforced by BI interventions whether through strategic planning or strategy mappings. All BI initiatives are meant to improve essential management of business processes in exchange with hiked productivity and service delivery. Process improvement, change management and strategic alignment are thus crucial to ensure support for BI initiatives through adoption of appropriate IT infrastructure and IT organization.
The evolution of BI has taken a long way from transactional data warehousing and data staging to transactional systems deploying batch analytical applications. Later integration of decisions rules into preexisting business intelligence IT tools such as BPM and EA were incorporated. The transition from one stage in the evolution process has not been realized via spontaneous change but rather through gradual improvement of previously existing BI software technologies.
The BI transactional systems have moved from traditional to real time feed data management systems followed by embedded systems with closed loops business intelligence transactional systems focused on creation of flexible and intelligent BPM solutions that ensure data warehouse visibility. BI has pragmatic role to play in ensuring increase in business effectiveness that results to increased profits in the private sector and or better business management interventions in the public sectors.