ABSTRACT
This chapter engages with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in an empirical setting. Our interest is in ERP implementation and the visual objects, the flowcharts that are deployed to help with this task. Flowcharts are a well-established tool from the pre-computer era dating back to around the early1920s 1 . The rhetoric surrounding their acceptance in a variety of settings includes their ability to capture important aspects of yet-to-becreated and complex real systems and to communicate them effectively to a wide variety of audiences (Boczko, 2007; Colter, 1984). The symbols for writing a flowchart have been standarized and disseminated by the national standards body of the United Kingdom (UK) British Standards Institution (BSI) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 2 .
