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Organizations that operate under an IT monarchy place key business unit and technical decisions in the hands of the CIO. Under the duopoly method, decision-making for IT budgets, applications and technologies is shared among the CIO and business unit leaders.

— Jeanne W. Ross to Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross in: Thomass Hoffman (2006)

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