Information, Systems and Information Systems - making sense of the field
by Peter Checkland, Sue Holwell
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Science-based technology helps to shape our lives, and notechnology is more powerful in this respect than that associatedwith information. But the emerging linked fields of informationsystems and information technology are still in a very confusedstate. There is a torrent of technical developments but theconcepts which bring structure to the field and make sense of itlag behind. This book seeks to dispel that confusion, and aims tomake sense of IS and IT as a whole. Conventional theory show more bearslittle relation to the experience most people have withcomputer-based systems in organizations. Based on real-worldexperiences in both the private and public sectors, this book fromPeter Checkland and Sue Holwell tackles the subject afresh.Information, Systems and Information Systems provides apractice-based approach to the thinking needed to underpinprovision of information support in organizations. Starting fromfundamentals, the book develops a coherent account of the field.The book is thus a work of conceptual cleansing. It presents awell-argued and tested account of IS and IT which is both holisticand coherent. The sense-making models which emerge can encompassany particular assumptions about the nature of organizationalreality and management, whether 'hard' functionalist or 'soft'interpretive ones, though the authors' sympathies are with thelatter. show lessTags
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Now retired from full-time university work, Peter Checkland continues his research as a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Technology, Business
- DDC/MDS
- 303.4833 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social processes Social change Causes of change Development of science and technology Communication
- LCC
- T58.6 .C425 — Technology Technology (General) Industrial engineering. Management Information technology Management information systems
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