 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
THE LABYRINTHS OF INFORMATION
CHALLENGING THE WISDOM OF SYSTEMS |
| By: |
Claudio Ciborra |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
|
£137.50 |
| Our price: |
£120.31 |
| Discount: |
|
| You save:
|
£17.19 |
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
019924152X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199241521 |
| Availability: |
Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.
 Delivery
rates
|
| Stock: |
Currently 0 available |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
27 June, 2002 |
| Pages: |
214 |
| Description: |
A reflective discussion of information in the contemporary organization. Current descriptions of the design, implementation, management, and use of information technology in organizations are largely founded on notions of rationality, science, and method. In this volume the author focuses on an alternative centre of gravity: human existence in everyday life. Whilst informed by the author's own research and consultancy work, the volume eschews the overly technicalcharacter of much writing about IT in favour of an exploration of the subject through various conceptual prisms. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
1 figure; 2 tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr
A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|