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Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: IT Organization and Architecture Challenges

By: Richard L. Nolan
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Abstract

Presents the outcome of Air Products ICON decentralization projects. New issues are explored, including the challenges of having a decentralized MIS staff, global network, client/server architecture, new data center issues, outsourcing, a new highly strategic customer interface, object-oriented programming (OOPS), and the future of the MIS organization. A rewritten version of two earlier cases.

Keywords

Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Organizational Design; Problems and Challenges

Citation

Nolan, Richard L. "Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: IT Organization and Architecture Challenges." Harvard Business School Case 196-017, August 1995.
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