A roadmap for the elicitation of business rules in information systems projects

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 316-348

  Kardasis, Panos ^a   Loucopoulos, Peri ^b  

^a Deloitte and Touche Consulting   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business analysis; Business planning; Information systems; Knowledge management; Maps

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744472820     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150510609381     Document Type: Review

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