How to Tap ERP's Hidden Potential in India?

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, today, are considered to be “the price of entry for running a business. The Indian market is seeing a lot of ERP activity at present, with public sector units (PSUs) being seen as the next big market. All the leading industrial houses are getting their act together for ERP implementation. ERPs constitute a fast growing segment of industry and are implemented across the board and not just in profit driven Business Corporation. The Indian states have different levels of maturity in terms of ERP through E-business. Naturally, the digital divide is more prominent in states that are high up in e-governance. India’s challenge is twofold – uplifting all the states to a minimum level of egovernance and employ e-inclusion techniques to bring in “digital business democracy”. However, the ability of a government to transform itself in ERP arena will decide the fate of e-governance in India. This research paper is intended for mid- to senior-level IT and business leaders from all government and private sectors in India who need to get better information in order to take more informed decisions about ERP implementation, its structured evaluation criteria, as well as the actual required criteria and suggests guidelines for successfully carrying it out, against all odds.