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Hopkins, Richard. Eating the IT elephant : moving from greenfield development to brownfield / RichardHopkins and Kevin Jenkins. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-13-713012-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Information technology. 2. Businessenterprises—Planning. I. Jenkins, Kevin. II. Title. T58.5.H69 2008 004.068—dc22 2008004231
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