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A Study Of The Factors Related To The Successful Merger Of Information Technology Departments Within Local Government, Angela Patton Nov 2003

A Study Of The Factors Related To The Successful Merger Of Information Technology Departments Within Local Government, Angela Patton

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This study focuses on the merger process of Information Technology (IT) departments within local government. The research that exists indicates that local government mergers, in general, have a high rate of failure. In addition, the political, managerial, cultural, and behavioral aspects that impact these mergers are ignored. The importance of computers to the departments/agencies housed within local government has made the IT departments a critical part of the local government structure. This study looks at the problems faced by the merging IT departments within local government in order to gain a better understanding of this process and to increase the …


Survey On E-Commerce And Its Applications, Zhenhua Gu Jan 2003

Survey On E-Commerce And Its Applications, Zhenhua Gu

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Electronic Commerce, usually is called e-commerce, conducts business on-line. It is electronic forms of communication that permits the exchange of sale information related to goods and services purchasing between buyers and sellers with digital cash and via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). The application of e-commerce is very important because that is the only way that how buyers and on-line business stores make the deals without seeing and talking each other. The applications should be very friendly (interface with nice layout and easily accepted by the potential buyers), easy to access and use (almost without to learn any computer and network …