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- Bednar, Peter, et al.
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The Right Tools for the Right Tasks: Meaningful Education for IS Professional
- 2011
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In: Information Systems Development - Business Systems and Services: Modeling and Development. - New York, NY : Springer New York. - 9781441996459 - 9781441997906 ; , s. 115-123
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The predicament in which we find ourselves today is that many professionals lack a sufficient grounding in formal methods, tools and techniques to enable them to make an appropriate selection for different kinds of problem. This can mean that complexity remains unrecognized and ambiguous problem situations are addressed as if they were clear and straightforward, resulting in inadequate solutions that are not experienced as useful by clients. We are thus faced with a circular dilemma. Those who attempt to use, e.g. SSM are unable to do so effectively through lack of understanding. They are thus driven back to the need for formal methods, and the disadvantages inherent in these approaches which SSM was originally created to address. Thus, there is a need to reintroduce into the agenda of soft and Agile methods an understanding of the skills and tool sets offered by hard/formal approaches. New professionals require a comprehensive education in use of tools and techniques, including their complementarity. This will not be delivered by training individuals in application of particular methodologies in a piecemeal and fragmented way, but by thorough and rigorous examination of whole methodologies in use. Only then can they engage in practice in the real world and develop their own tool sets, from which to select in an informed way those most appropriate to a problem situation.
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- Holmberg, Nicklas, et al.
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Better Support for User Participation Using Business Rules Approach?
- 2011
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In: Information Systems Development. Business Systems and Services: Modeling and Development.. - New York, NY : Springer New York. - 9781441997906 ; , s. 297-308
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- User participation in requirement analysis (RA) is necessary for IS quality and user acceptance. A prerequisite for meaningful user participation is that the coming users also understand the requirements. This understanding is made difficult by abstract and “technical” modelling languages and notations which require learning and experience. The Business Rules Approach (BRA) builds on a notion of Business Rules (BR) formulated in natural language sentences aimed at the business audience; hence BRA should make user participation easy. This is tested in a workshop with a vaccination expert (VE) in a project on designing a BR oriented, digital service for health care workers (HCWs). The results indicate that natural language BRs in RA really are easily understood and intuitive for the VE and that quality checking BRs requires no special learning.
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- Pierce, Paul, et al.
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Using Alliances to Cut the Learning Curve of ICT
- 2016
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In: Perspectives in Business Informatics Research. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 9783319453200 - 9783319453217 ; 261, s. 247-261
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is arguably an important, emblematic and ubiquitous technology of contemporary society. For many incumbent firms, the infusion of ICT into their industries poses both threats and opportunities. It might drive significant shifts of financial wealth and make firm performance change drastically. It entails managerial challenges of a kind we might not have seen before, but where knowledge of what possibilities and limitations reside in ICT will be a key success factor. One strategy to incorporate ICT-capability is developing the capability in-house; another strategy is to shortcut the learning curve and form alliance with someone having ICT-capability. By applying a design science approach a framework for ICT-capability transfer is put forth, a framework based on 62 interviews from stakeholders with experience of ICT-motivated alliances. By using this framework the risk of failure is reduced.
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