3. Case Study of MIT ERP Implementation
3.1. Antecedent Condition
At the beginning of 1990’s, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, which had 10,000 students and faculty and staff totaling 8,000, faced pressures from
outside of MIT as well as a significant operating budget problem. Federal research spending and growth
in U.S. research spending had decreased, and increasing MIT’s tuition fee would lead to enrollment
barriers for too many students. These problems may cause to increase operating gap, resulting in
difficulties to attract and support MIT’s major stakeholders – students, faculty, staff, alumni, sponsors,
and employers (See below Figure 3-1 and Figure 3-2).