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What affected the choice of system boundary?: Changes in vision

The relationship between the new Multinational system and the mainframe systems of the other operating companies being used by X kept varying during the development. Colin's initial vision was that gradually X systems would take over the functions of the mainframes (00216, 00222). When the system was first built there was a view that the system would always link with the mainframe systems (00317). However as the system grew there was a greater emphasis on replacing the functionality of the mainframe systems in the Multinational system. This seems to have been driven initially in Europe by technical issues but became more and more about X having control of their own IT (00035, 010193, 01001).

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IT environment: Existing systems

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