The data load for CRM systems is less significant than those of Accounting and Financial systems and applications. Those specific fields captured by customers are often compressed into measures of activity as well, and as a result the data load is less significant than in the areas of Accounting and Financial Systems and Reservation and Booking Systems. Even when customized reports are created based on CRM data; the data

Indeed, in terms of ethics, it harms the company the CIO is working for, along with his own reputation. It is therefore better to channel negativity into the planning, implementation and anticipation stages than into external communications. A consideration of publications regarding the specific duties and positions of the CIO within a company provides further insight. According to Strassmann (reviewed by Goldsmith, 1995), for example, the CIO is primarily responsible

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" (Brown, 1996, p. 74) That potential of globalization can be attributed directly to the current business processes working to its fullest capabilities. Some may think that these trends towards globalization are new to the twentieth or twenty-first centuries. In a sense that is true because of the fact that our current globalization phenomenon can be linked with the advent of our new technology, financial methods and distribution channels to any

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The company's board believed they could not find a replacement for Chaney by the date of his intended departure, and so the directors put the company up for sale. In March 1996, the New York-based investment banking firm Merrill Lynch was hired to generate interest in the company, and a suitable buyer was found, a New York-based private investment firm named Forstmann Little & Co. This company was headed