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Title	A guide to policy making
Type	Feature
Source	Baroudi Bloor 04/14/2003
Summary	Small and medium businesses (SMBs) by definition are "caught in the middle" - too small for huge infrastructure investment, too big for ad hoc decision making. One affordable, extensible, intelligent solution that's available now should be high priority for every SMB. That solution is policy. What kind of policy? Policy governing behavior and process - the better defined, the more it can do. continue

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