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UMN’s Hard Lessons Learned Implementing a New IWMS

Implementing a new full-suite, cloud-hosted Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) can be like a fairy tale or it can be a comedy of errors, according to Brian Swanson, Assistant VP of Finance & Systems at the University of Minnesota (UMN). ...

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UMN’s Hard Lessons Learned Implementing a New IWMS

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