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Bottom-up enterprise information systems: rethinking the roles of central IT departments

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Cecil Eng Huang Chua,

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 60, Issue 1

Pages 66 - 72

https://doi.org/10.1145/2950044

Published: 20 December 2016 Publication History

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Central IT needs to guide functional areas and departments toward effective operational and procurement practices.

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