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Telecommunications and business strategy: basic variables for design

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The problems of telecommunications planning and management are rapidly becoming more complex and more pressing: Significant advances in technology have greatly increased the capabilities of communications networks, costs are declining, and simultaneously deregulation and the AT&T divestiture have introduced a confusing array of new options. And yet the strategic opportunities for application of telecommunications---the opportunities to use telecommunications and information systems to alter in some fundamental way a firm, its position in its marketplace, or its relationships with customers and competitors---have never been greater.
This paper presents a preliminary framework for TC systems planning. It is not concerned with detailed network design, either local or long-haul. Rather, it progresses from determination of the network's purpose and essential functionality, through general policy, financial considerations, and analysis of uncontrollable factors, to conclude with determination of design targets that must then be met by the detailed network design.

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    AFIPS '84: Proceedings of the July 9-12, 1984, national computer conference and exposition
    July 1984
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    ISBN:0882830430
    DOI:10.1145/1499310
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