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Virtuaaliammattikorkeakoulu, VirtuaaliAMK

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Virtuaaliammattikorkeakoulu, VirtuaaliAMK

Avointen ammattikorkeakoulujen sähköinen asiointijärjestelmä opetusministeriön tietohallintostrategian näkökulmasta

Virtuaaliammattikorkeakoulu, VirtuaaliAMK

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Virtuaaliammattikorkeakoulu, VirtuaaliAMK

Opiskelijat kertovat VirtuaaliAMK:sta - opiskelijakyselyiden tuloksia 2006 - 2007

Virtuaaliammattikorkeakoulu, VirtuaaliAMK

Evaluating End-User Training Effectiveness in ERP System Implementation

Today’s business world demands more and more internal and external integration and transparency among companies at all fields. Integrated ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems offer a possibility to improve business practices and procedures by providing a unified view on the business including all functions and departments. Due to the obvious benefits, the popularity of integrated ERP systems keeps growing. The implementation of ERP systems has however proven risky. The implementation projects tend to be long, extensive, and costly – and often they end up in a failure. Due to the significant task and role changes ERP implementation brings to almost everybody in the company, training has been identified as one of the most critical success factors of an ERP implementation. To ensure that the training is conducted in the most effective and successful manner, the training outcomes should be evaluated. So far, training evaluation has however gained only limited attention at most companies investing in different training programs. Uponor corporation has initiated a large ERP implementation and process harmonization program in 2004. Thousands of end-users have been trained during this project so far, and the work still continues until the project is completed in 2010. In this thesis, the evaluation of end-user training in Uponor’s ERP program is brought further from the current state of performing the basic participant satisfaction survey in the end of each class. The results show that in order to reach reliable training effectiveness evaluation results, not only the reaction towards training but also transfer of skills and attitudes and the final results of the training program should be evaluated.