Developments in practice XXXVI: How to talk so business will listen . . . and listen so business will talk

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 207-216

  Smith, Heather A ^a   Mckeen, James D ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Business IT relationship; Communication; IT competencies

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION;

BUSINESS-IT; COMMUNICATION SKILLS; EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; IT COMPETENCIES; ORGANIZATIONAL DIMENSIONS; PAPER DOCUMENTS; PERCEPTIONS OF IT; SOCIAL DIMENSIONS;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77958092036     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.02713     Document Type: Article

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