Same Business Same System? A critique of organisation and the information systems process.

Peter Bednar, Gillian Green

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Abstract

In trying to understand any aspect surrounding the success and failure of information systems practice, concepts of organisational analysis become increasingly important. Many issues arise and must be dealt with when an information system is to be developed and implemented. In order to avoid information system failures information system analysts should adopt an approach, which exploits the intrinsic and contextually dependent characteristics of organisational activities. Such an exploitation acknowledges the uniqueness inherent in individual organizations and may inform the adoption of appropriate technologies which can then be innovatively employed for competitive advantage. In order to facilitate successful future organisational change practices and to lay the base for supporting overall information system effectiveness, there is a need to employ both in theory and in practice, ideas of organisational learning and (critically informed) interpretivist information system analysis, design and implementation.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication[Host publication title missing]
PublisherUniversity of Manchester
Pagesx1-x17
Number of pages17
Publication statusPublished - 2007
EventUKAIS2007: UK Academy for Information Systems Conference: 21st century IS: do organisations matter? - Manchester:, United Kingdom
Duration: 2007 Apr 112007 Apr 12

Conference

ConferenceUKAIS2007: UK Academy for Information Systems Conference: 21st century IS: do organisations matter?
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityManchester:
Period2007/04/112007/04/12

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Information Systems, Social aspects

Free keywords

  • Critical Systems Thinking
  • Contextual Dependency
  • Information Systems Development

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