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A DSS which was written with one situation in mind may occasionally be moved to a different organisational environment. This will usually happen when there is a ‘champion’, or ‘principal’ for the DSS who wants to obtain the benefits in a new place. How should he go about moving it across so that it will continue to be a success? The paper presents stories about such transfers, and seeks to isolate the championing behaviours which worked well, the championing behaviours which did not, and the reasons.
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Mccosh, A.M. (1998). Coping with Diverse Contexts for Decision Support. In: Berkeley, D., Widmeyer, G.R., Brezillon, P., Rajkovic, V. (eds) Context Sensitive Decision Support Systems. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35356-2_7
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