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eGovernment Vision Elicitation

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Strategic planning is the most relevant phase of the eGovernment information system life cycle for achieving a clear understanding of the alignment between the political vision, the context of intervention, and the actual ICT goals, architectures, and infrastructures.

This chapter is authored by Gianluigi Viscusi.

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    For a discussion of the prevalent views on systems change and fitness relationships between business models and system functionality models, see [193].

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    The proposed list of principles concern the highest ones cited in literature and eGovernment programs. The list can be enlarged on the basis of the context of intervention.

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  1. Department DISCo, University of Milano-Bicocca, Viale Sarca 336/14, 20126, Milano, Italy

    Gianluigi Viscusi & Prof. Carlo Batini

  2. Department of Systems and Computer Science and Engineering “Antonio Ruberti”, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Via Salaria 113, 00198, Roma, Italy

    Dr. Massimo Mecella

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Viscusi, G., Batini, C., Mecella, M. (2010). eGovernment Vision Elicitation. In: Information Systems for eGovernment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13571-2_4

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