Seminar av Mike Newman

Torsdag kommer professor Mike Newman fra University of Manchester til SOL og NHH. Han skal holde seminar om suksess og fiasko med hensyn til informasjonssystemer.

Professor Mike Newman from the University of Manchester will give a seminar Thursday at the Departement of Strategy and Management. The title of the seminar is "Revisiting Success and Failure in Information Systems: from Factor to Process Studies".

15.08.2006 - Asle Haukaas

- Mike Newman er en av de fremste forskerne innen informasjonssystemer med eksepsjonelle arbeider innen blant annet systemimplementering, forteller professor Anna Mette Fuglseth på SOL. For mer informasjon se engelsk sammendrag nedenfor eller kontakt Fuglseth. Kopier av Newmans paper vil bli tilgjengelig senere.

Tid og sted er torsdag 17. august kl. 10.15 - 12.00 i Møterom 3, SNF.

- Mike Newman is one of the foremost researchers in the IS field. He has done exceptional work in the area of implementation of systems,
amongst others, says Professor Anna Mette Fuglseth. A copy of a paper will be available later.

Time and place: Thursday August 17th, 10.15 - 12.00 in Meeting room 3, SNF. Contct person is Anna Mettte Fuglseth (59245)

Abstract: We begin by comparing factor models and process models of information system development (ISD), drawing on analogs from other spheres of social life. Building on early process models, we define ISD change employing a socio-technical lens: ISD concerns changes in technologies, human actors, organizational structures and processes and tasks. We outline a punctuated change model - called a punctuated socio-technical ISD change model (or PSIC model) - that recognizes both incremental and punctuated socio-technical change during ISD at multiple levels: the work system level, the building system level, and the organizational environment as to account for ISD outcomes. The PSIC model narrates event sequences during ISD - changes in socio-technical systems at all three system levels and their connections - ignited by critical events that respond to gaps in the socio-technical system to explain how and why a specific ISD outcome emerged. By conceiving ISD change as a multi-level sequence of socio-technical events, researchers can narrate plausible explanations of ISD outcomes, including IS failures. The explanatory power of the model is briefly illustrated with a case study of a complex ISD change process. Practitioners can use the model in post mortem analyses to learn about the effectiveness of their design interventions.