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Enterprise Architecture: Differentiating wants and needs.

July 7, 2013 by Kim Parker

A Business will often decide that they ‘need’ to undertake certain activities so as to solve particular problems that they perceive themselves as having.  Once these activities have been completed and the ‘problems’ solved the business expects to reap the … Continue reading →

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