Successfully Turning around a Failing E-Procurement Project: Lessons from a UK Borough Council

Successfully Turning around a Failing E-Procurement Project: Lessons from a UK Borough Council

This paper presents a case study that examines the challenges faced by a British Metropolitan Borough Council in developing and implementing an electronic procurement system. The case illustrates how the project escalated, and the risks associated with that escalation. It also provides the sequence...

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Main Authors: PAN, Gary Shan Chi, Parkes, Alison
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
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E-Commerce
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/645
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soa_research-16442010-09-22T14:12:03Z Successfully Turning around a Failing E-Procurement Project: Lessons from a UK Borough Council PAN, Gary Shan Chi Parkes, Alison This paper presents a case study that examines the challenges faced by a British Metropolitan Borough Council in developing and implementing an electronic procurement system. The case illustrates how the project escalated, and the risks associated with that escalation. It also provides the sequence of actions/decisions associated with de-escalation, and explains how the project was eventually turned around. The study identifies the importance of de-escalation triggers, and discusses four de-escalation triggers that emerge from this case. 2006-12-01T08:00:00Z text https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/645 Research Collection School Of Accountancy eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Accounting E-Commerce
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E-Commerce
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Parkes, Alison
Successfully Turning around a Failing E-Procurement Project: Lessons from a UK Borough Council
description This paper presents a case study that examines the challenges faced by a British Metropolitan Borough Council in developing and implementing an electronic procurement system. The case illustrates how the project escalated, and the risks associated with that escalation. It also provides the sequence of actions/decisions associated with de-escalation, and explains how the project was eventually turned around. The study identifies the importance of de-escalation triggers, and discusses four de-escalation triggers that emerge from this case.
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author PAN, Gary Shan Chi
Parkes, Alison
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Parkes, Alison
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title Successfully Turning around a Failing E-Procurement Project: Lessons from a UK Borough Council
title_short Successfully Turning around a Failing E-Procurement Project: Lessons from a UK Borough Council
title_full Successfully Turning around a Failing E-Procurement Project: Lessons from a UK Borough Council
title_fullStr Successfully Turning around a Failing E-Procurement Project: Lessons from a UK Borough Council
title_full_unstemmed Successfully Turning around a Failing E-Procurement Project: Lessons from a UK Borough Council
title_sort successfully turning around a failing e-procurement project: lessons from a uk borough council
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2006
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/645
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