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Management article
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Reference no. 83110
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Published in: "Harvard Business Review", 1983
Length: 11 pages

Abstract

Planning for the amounts and types of information systems (IS) applications grows in importance as the technologies of computers, telecommunications, and office automation increase in both size and complexity. In most companies, an IS technology goes through four phases of assimilation (identification and initial investment, experimentation and learning, control, and widespread technology transfer), and planning serves a different purpose in each phase.

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Abstract

Planning for the amounts and types of information systems (IS) applications grows in importance as the technologies of computers, telecommunications, and office automation increase in both size and complexity. In most companies, an IS technology goes through four phases of assimilation (identification and initial investment, experimentation and learning, control, and widespread technology transfer), and planning serves a different purpose in each phase.

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