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The 1980s were the decade of major management change for information resources-getting timely and accurate information in the right form through the effective use of information services and information-handling technologies such as computers and telecommunications. This article reports on research completed by Syracuse University in 1989 on how executive branch officials in state governments in the 1980s significantly changed their information technology and information management approaches, otherwise known as information resources management (IRM).1
Sharon L. Caudle (Sat,) studied this question.