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Loitering with intent: dealing with human-intensive systems

Författare

  • Peter Bednar
  • Christine Welch

Summary, in English

This paper discusses the professional roles of information systems analysts and users, focusing on a perspective of human intensive, rather than software intensive information systems. The concept of ‘meaningful use’ is discussed in re-lation to measures of success/failure in IS development. The authors consider how a number of different aspects of reductionism may distort analyses, so that processes of inquiry cannot support organizational actors to explore and shape their requirements in relation to meaningful use. Approaches which attempt to simplify complex problem spaces, to render them more susceptible to ‘solution’ are problematized. Alternative perspectives which attempt a systematic, holistic complexification, by supporting contextual dependencies to emerge, are advocated as a way forward.

Publiceringsår

2007

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1-5

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

[Host publication title missing]

Dokumenttyp

Konferensbidrag

Förlag

University of Trento, Venice, Italy

Ämne

  • Information Systems, Social aspects

Nyckelord

  • Human Intensive Systems
  • Critical Systemic Thinking
  • Contextual Inquiry
  • Systems Analysis
  • Contextual Analysis

Conference name

ItAIS2007: The 4th Conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS: The Interdisciplinary Aspects of Information Systems Studies

Conference date

2007-10-03 - 2007-10-04

Conference place

Isola di San Servolo, Venice, Italy

Status

Published