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is not purely on building a good quality, robust software application but in presenting a more
holistic view of user and organizational needs.
ONGOING RESEARCH
This research forms part of a wider research program being conducted by Sandra Barker
and Ann Monday into the delivery of this software-based information systems course in the
Administrative Management degree program.
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