... the Norwegian Army was in many ways a hindrance to a successful adoption of information technology. 1. INTRODUCTION In this paper a study is presented which examines the importance of the organisational culture and looks at the interaction between: OD, organisational culture and information technology. The study was of an information technology project within the Norwegian Army. In August 1995, one of the biggest IT project ever launched by the Norwegian Army terminated. This represented an end to a project which had lasted more than a decade and had cost approximately NOK 635 (£ 63,5) mill . Named the Electronic Data Processing in Local Administration (EDB i Lokal Forvaltning, EDBLF) project,the stated purpose was to make the Army more efficient by introducing an information technology system to be used by local Army units for administration purposes. The technology in question was to be distributed to 130 units and would affect 2000 employees. ...

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