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

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

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            Communications of the ACM  Volume 60, Issue 1
            January 2017
            95 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/3028256
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            • Moshe Y. Vardi
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