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Managing risks in enterprise systems implementations

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What determines if a system implementation will be successful?

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 45, Issue 4
      Supporting community and building social capital
      April 2002
      199 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/505248
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