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For the past decade, organizations have been obsessed with the notion of aligning information technology (IT) with their business processes. Although this seems like an intrinsic good in theory, evidence suggests that such investments rarely fulfilled expectations. Organizations spent billions of dollars on IT in the 1980s and 1990s; few of them, however, have realized significant benefit from their investment.
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Hurley, T., Tompkins, D. (1999). Enterprise Information Architecture. In: Ball, M.J., Douglas, J.V. (eds) Performance Improvement Through Information Management. Health Informatics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0519-7_5
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