The top management of a large company, discovers that his biggest and most important information systems project will be eight months late. Developers used the latest technology (web interface, distributed, client-server, network) and architecture (SOA). Some new details have been up and running, but many old units suffered heavy heritage of the daily needs and the risk of downtime grew. Were staffing problems and problems with conversions and found that a number of organizational units have been resisting the adoption of new systems.
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by Brandt Allen Source: Darden School of Business 5 pages. Publication Date: February 8, 2007. Prod. #: UV0445-PDF-ENG
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