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How to identify new high-payoff information systems for the organization

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Viewing users as partners and their personal knowledge of the organization as a strategic asset helps CIOs justify project proposals with the greatest promise for achieving organizational goals.

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 46, Issue 1
            January 2003
            92 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/602421
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