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Vendor screening in IT contracting with a pilot project

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ICIS '99: Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Information Systems

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Published: 01 January 1999 Publication History

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Vendor screening in IT contracting with a pilot project
1. Applied computing
  1. Enterprise computing
    1. Business process management
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
        Project management techniques

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ICIS '99: Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Information Systems

January 1999

663 pages

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Univ. of Dayton, OH
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Janice I. De Gross
Univ. of Minnesota

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