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Traditional concerns over the reliability of computer-based systems have focussed on the real-time area where computers directly interact with a physical system, such as flight management. Increasingly, as commercial business systems acquire a more central role in the strategy and management of business operations, the consequences of failure of such systems become potentially more destructive.
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Spiers, J.D. (1987). Failure of Business Information Systems. In: Wise, J.A., Debons, A. (eds) Information Systems: Failure Analysis. NATO ASI Series, vol 32. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83091-4_4
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