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The biggest opportunity for IT is under our noses, perhaps that’s why it hasn’t been recognised, yet. In the meantime too many stakeholders still regard IT investment simply as an opportunity for more unexpected cost and disappointment. So when are we going to do something about iT? Systems Blindness is damaging and expensive
There are none so blind as those who will not see. But there are also those who simply cannot see the wood for the trees, which is why so many organizations unknowingly suffer from a severe form of corporate dyslexia: Systems Blindness. How can we diagnose, treat and cure this damaging and expensive syndrome that cripples effectiveness and long-term viability? Westminster Business School, London 10th June 2009. Limited places available. Event organised by the Sociotechnical group of the British Computer Society. Picture credit: *spud* Colin Beveridge will set out a credible, compelling vision for a new, post-IT, paradigm that is within the embrace of all stakeholders. This is thought-leadership at the leading edge and your opportunity to challenge the views put Continue reading article » I do have a compelling vision for the next paradigm but first we need to make IT history. The first decade of the 21st Century is all but ended and yet we remain firmly stuck in the outdated IT-centric paradigm of the 1990s, a paradigm that puts IT at the forefront and pays scant regard to the true subsidiary position of IT as a mere facilitator of Information Systems. Despite nearly twenty years’ awareness of the IT productivity paradox, there is much evidence that disappointment and unexpected cost are still the most likely outcomes of investment in IT. That’s why I want to make IT history, by making IT history. I want to facilitate a paradigm shift, which is long overdue. Moving forward from IT will be part of our natural evolution which has already seen our profession move forward from previous operating paradigms: Computing in the 1950s, through DP in the ’60s, EDP in the ’70s, MIS in the ’80s until we all lovingly embraced IT as the sexy new paradigm of the early 1990s. Continue reading article » Information is the power domain of peopleWe seem to have Freedom of Information Laws and a Freedom from Information culture. Information is created by people attributing meaning to data, within context and perspective; thus root data can easily spawn an infinite variety of information, due to the divergence and complexity of the people and attributed meanings employed in the information creation process. Nevertheless, despite Continue reading article » |
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