PDF-(BOOK)-The Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom of Systems

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 metaphorssuch as Bricolage Krisis Gestall etc to place a concern for human existence and our working lives at the center 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 hightech settings What is the value of ageold practices in dealing with new technologies What is the role of moods and affections in influencing action and cognition Labyrinths of Information presents an alternative to the current approaches in management softwareengineering 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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