Romancing the Stone: play between romance and affection
Author
Editor
- Silvia Gherardi
Summary, in English
Despite many years of implementations, issues surrounding the success or failure of information systems are still shrouded in mystery. In a quest to improve business outcomes from such systems an IS analyst should have a key role to play. Organisational IS can be seen as a composition of indi-vidual and organisational learning processes, and as such is in a constant state of change. Knowledge as an individual sense-making process is a shifting sand of lessons learnt, experiential practices, active reflection and is therefore historically unique. Even when the balance of individual competencies, skills and attributes would seem to have been sufficient for the task at hand failure can still result from the combination of factors within that particular project. Organisational sense-making activities suffer from irrationalities of action, skilled incompetence’s and a plethora of organisational defence mechanisms. Within the information systems field, contextual analysis is an initiative focused on addressing issues of organ-isational information systems. Such systems are 'community' initiated, where system development or change activity is mentored by the analyst through the developmental mechanism of continual learning and communication.
Publishing year
2001
Language
English
Pages
1-9
Publication/Series
[Host publication title missing]
Document type
Conference paper
Publisher
EGOS / University of Lyon
Topic
- Information Systems, Social aspects
Keywords
- contextual dependencies
- organisational learning
- information systems
- sense-making
- systems thinking
Conference name
17th EGOS Colloquium, 2001
Conference date
2001-07-05 - 2001-07-07
Conference place
Lyon, France
Status
Published