Walking atop the cliffs: Avoiding failure and reducing risk in large scale e-government projects

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 1656-1665

  Pardo, T A ^a   Scholl, H J J ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Business process re engineering; Electronic government; Feedback; Information systems; Information technology; Large scale systems; Legged locomotion; Management information systems; Testing

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TESTING;

BEHAVIORAL FACTORS; BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING; ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT; IMPLEMENTATION PROJECTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; LARGE-SCALE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; THEORY AND PRACTICE;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84948664559     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2002.994076     Document Type: Conference Paper

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