The Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom of Systems

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Oxford University Press, 2002

019924152X / 9780199241521

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How to use information and communication technologies in organizations and how to manage their impact has been the traditional domain of computer specialists and management consultants. The former have offered multiple ways to represent, model, and build applications that would streamline and accelerate data flows, while the latter have been busy linking the deployment of ICTs with strategy and the redesign of business processes. This book takes quite a different approach altogether. In a series of essays, Ciborra uses a string of metaphors -- such as Bricolage, Krisis, Gestell, etc. -- to place a concern for human existence and our working lives at the centre of the study of ICTs and their diffusion in business organizations, and looks at our practices, improvisations, and moods. He draws upon his own extensive research and consulting experience to throw a fresh light on some key questions: why are systems ambiguous? Why do they not give us more time to do things? Is there strategic value in tinkering even in high-tech settings? What is the value of age-old practices in dealing with new technologies? What is the role of moods and affections in influencing action and cognition? The Labyrinths of Information presents an alternative to the current approaches in management, software-engineering, and strategy that will be of interest to all those concerned with the deployment of ICTs in society today -- whether as users, managers, designers, policy makers, or the merely curious.…

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Titolo
The Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom of Systems
Autore
Claudio Ciborra
Editore
Oxford University Press
Anno di pubblicazione
2002
Condizione
Good
Rilegatura
Hardback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
019924152X
ISBN 13
9780199241521

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