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Global IT management: structuring for scale, responsiveness, and innovation

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To succeed on a global scale, businesses should focus on a trio of key elements.

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            Communications of the ACM  Volume 53, Issue 3
            March 2010
            152 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/1666420
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