Electronic mail and weak ties in organizations
Office Technology and People - Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Managing the software process
Examining the computing and centralization debate
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on computer graphics: state of the arts
When professional standards are lax: the CONFIRM failure and its lessons
Communications of the ACM
Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies
Communications of the ACM
Information systems and organizational change
Communications of the ACM
The control devolution: ERP and the side effects of globalization
ACM SIGMIS Database - Special issue on critical analyses of ERP systems: the macro level
Building Policy Coherence: Tools and Tensions
Building Policy Coherence: Tools and Tensions
Software Engineering Economics
Software Engineering Economics
Designing Complex Organizations
Designing Complex Organizations
From Control to Drift: The Dynamics of Corporate Information Infrastructures
From Control to Drift: The Dynamics of Corporate Information Infrastructures
Computers in Context: The Philosophy and Practice of Systems Design
Computers in Context: The Philosophy and Practice of Systems Design
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E-government is a move towards more use of networked information technologies in governments' services to citizens and companies. There will be strong expectations that these services are well co-ordinated and interoperable with the applications of citizens and companies. IT coordination is difficult, expensive and risk prone. The wide range of products and services in government makes co-ordination even harder. Co-ordination of e-government should therefore be carefully prioritised and the ambitions should be set at a reasonable level. Analysis shows that ambitions are often unrealistic, and that political goals seem to dominate over effective, stepwise approaches to co-ordination. On a pragmatic level, there is a need to focus on simpler, process-oriented mechanisms for co-ordination and to improve governments as software organisations. There are considerable challenges in the typical split of work between ministries and operative agencies in government.