It is common knowledge that American and western multinationals are often challenged by the Chinese government to provide a greater level of visibility into their financial data, especially when the it architectures they are using required a highly distributed architecture (Zhang, Lee, Huang, Zhang, Huang, 2005). Diverse, sophisticated and analytics-intensive enterprise systems that have the ability to manage pricing and financial data with greater agility than the Chinese government is a cause for concern of the ruling party there, as Wal-Mart has learned with the accusation leveled at them recently regarding price "fixing" when they created a distributed supply chain network. When creating a distributed network in China, the need for creating a strong, transparent yet distanced alliance with the Chinese government to ensure continued operation of the network and it enterprise application (Zhang, Lee, Huang, Zhang, Huang, 2005).
Conclusion
Key success factors for successful it implementations are relatively common across geographic regions, yet the interpretation and completion of them varies significantly. The lack of consistency in China with regard to infrastructure, highly customized nature of training materials and...
western locations also is critically important. Overarching all of these factors is the need for ensuring senior management supports and champions the program to ensure their success.
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