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Odoo for leaders, founders, investors and researchers · 12 min · 2026Researching ERP: evidence, methods and ethics
For researchers and analysts: studying ERP adoption, process data and AI in enterprise systems.
In this lesson
- Research questions and methods
- Odoo as a research platform
- Ethics and reproducibility
Key points
- Methods: case study, survey, design science, process mining
- Open-source Community allows controlled experiments
- Extract event logs from document histories
- Consent, anonymisation, data-protection law, reproducibility
Real-world example
A University of Lagos team studied order-to-cash cycle times in three SMEs using event logs extracted from Odoo and found approval steps, not stock, caused most delays. They published with synthetic data so others could replicate.
Questions and answers
Name two research methods.
Case study, survey, interviews, design science, process mining.
Which law governs personal data in Nigeria?
The Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023.