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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2002. Focus on human behaviour as the new determinant of IT strategy.
Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Invitation ; 2. Krisis - judging methods ; 3. Bricolage - improvisation, hacking, patching ; 4. Gestell - the power of infrastructures ; 5. Derive - drift and deviation ; 6. Xenia - hosting an innovation ; 7. Shih - architecture and action ; 8. Kairos (and Affectio) - seizing the opportunity (and moods and mental states) ; Methodological Appendix (Odos) - my chosen road