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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 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 The first decade of the 21st Century is all but ended and yet we remain firmly stuck in the outdated IT-centric paradigm of the 1990s, a paradigm that puts IT at the forefront and pays scant regard to the true subsidiary position of IT as a mere facilitator of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 » We 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 |
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