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The building blocks of a cloud strategy: evidence from three SaaS providers

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Before looking to enter a cloud-based market, weigh industry characteristics and one's own stock of design capital.

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        Communications of the ACM  Volume 59, Issue 1
        January 2016
        120 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/2859829
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        • Moshe Y. Vardi
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