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Challenge 11: Where Are the Users? Users Want Your Service, Not Your System

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Managing Electronic Services

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Many cities have made considerable investments in Web systems, only to find that they are little used. Typically, the front page, which has no information content, has quite a few hits, while pages with information such as political information or City Council minutes have very few visitors. No wonder people begin to ask, “When will the users arrive?”.

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Grönlund, Å. (2000). Challenge 11: Where Are the Users? Users Want Your Service, Not Your System. In: Managing Electronic Services. Practitioner Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0511-4_11

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