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This paper reports some preliminary research findings from an ongoing research program on the Successful Information Systems Implementation. A preliminary Model for Implementation of Information Systems (IS) is presented here in terms of ten precepts for IS-implementation. Its focus is on organizational and user aspects of an IS-implementation, where the objective is to secure that the users of the to-be IS will use the deployed IS as intended; hardware, software, and other aspects of the information technology itself are not accounted by this model. The key challenge addressed here is the many reported failures of IS-implementation as derived from organizational challenges rather than technology itself. The proposed model is framed within the so-called Organization Information System paradigm that regards an organization and its IS as one conceptual unit rather than considering it as an adjunct to the organization. Therefore, an IS-implementation is here contextualised within a process of organisational change. The core of the presented model is a mechanism of organizational change of an IS-implementation, called the “Effect-Behaviour-Resource-Influenc