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Tom Coburn: “The decisionmaking process and the knowledge about how to buy IT--buying IT is hard. The other thing is, is you have to…”

On the recordMay 12, 2014
The decisionmaking process and the knowledge about how to buy IT--buying IT is hard. The other thing is, is you have to really know what you want before you order it, and I think some of the biggest problems is, is we do not know what we really want.
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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Coburn emphasizes the challenges in IT procurement and the need for clear requirements.

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