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Most people learn more from failures than from successes. In information technology management, many lessons have been learned over the years "the hard way" through failed implementations, poor management practices, technology limitations, and the like. Failure & Lessons Learned in Information Technology Management is devoted to addressing failures of and lessons learned from information technology projects in business, universities, government, and the military that did not succeed due to technology, management, organizational, social, cultural, and other issues. The goal is to learn from these cases and understand the basis of decisions made in order to not recreate the same mistakes or "reinvent the wheel." The organizational names in the articles can be protected by using pseudonyms.

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References: References should be placed at the end of the text, beginning on a separate sheet, arranged in alphabetical order and styled to follow American Psychological Association guidelines as set forth in their Publication Manual (4th edition). Cite surnames and year in parentheses in the text. Do not list personal communications in the reference list. Follow the examples below for styling references:

Journal Reference
Leibowitz, J., & Potter, W. (1995). Scheduling objectives, requirements, resources, constraints, and processes: Implications for a generic expert scheduling system architecture and toolkit. Expert Systems With Applications, 9(3), 423-432.

Book Reference
Liebowitz, J. (Ed.) (1996). Hybrid intelligent system applications. Elmsford, NY: Cognizant Communication Corporation.

Book Chapter
Michailidis, A., & Rada, R. (1996). Collaborative authoring tools. In R. Rada (Ed.), Groupware and authoring (pp. 9-44). London: Academic Press.

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