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Consumer support systems

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The interaction between businesses and their customers is ripe for the next leap, and it will require a collection of technologies to build new organizational structures such as demand chains, task-based intermediaries, and consumer communities.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 50, Issue 4
        April 2007
        86 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/1232743
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