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5 Cards in this Set
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Why is data articulated? |
Used to communucate a number of things to different actors.
To represent things of importance.. content.. but also to represent the intent of communication.. what shoukd be done with the communication.n |
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Socio-technical systems |
It is useful to think of information systems as socio-technical systems...
They are systems if formal cummunication... in the sense that they comprise patterns of communicative action.. communication which gets things done. |
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Information systems |
Information systems mediate between activity systems on the one hand and data systems on the other...
- Data systens are technical or technology systems... patterns of articulating signals or records.
- Activity systems are social systems... patterns of coordinated, instrumental action. |
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Lessons about information systems. |
- Information systems are different from data systems... - But information systems are necessarily reliiant upon data systems. - Information systems support coordination in activity systems. - Information systems are systems of formal communication. - Information systems acn be expressed as patterns of communicative acts. - Information systems can be designed in support of coordinated activity. - Information systems are important to comoetitive advantage... to providing some system of organisation with some advantage of performance over another system of organisation. |
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Key points. |
- Information systems are different from activity and data systems... but coupled with such systems. - Information systems are sometimes said ro be socio-technical systems. - They rely on the one hand upon data 'technology' for the making of recirds and the transmission of messages. - ... and (social) they contribute to the effective coordination of the resources of organisation, people, machines abd other artefacts. - Information systems are systems of formal comnunication.. essential to effective decision-making. - The design of effective information systems is critical to the advantage gained by organisation on particular domains. - |
