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What is the main message of: Rick Maes - An Integrative Perspective on Information Management
IM cube: Generic framework for investigating and interrelating the different components as reinterpretation of and an extension to the widely propagated model for strategic alignment.
IM is about the identity of the organization
What is the main message of: What does a CDO do?
CDOs need some IT knowhow, but mainly strong skills in strategy development, change management and communication.
Focused on the demand-side (business innovation, growth and value) and customer-focused
What is the main message of: Digital Infrastructures: The missing IS Agenda
It calls for:
Better understanding of the ways in which infrastructural change shapes IT governance, IS development and promotes new effects across all levels of analysis
Augment traditional case studies with dynamic, multilevel, and longitudinal analyses to better understanding of what factors, events, and actions generate different outcomes and possibly to prescriptive advice of the desgin, evolution, and utilization of digital infrastructures
What is the main message of: Architecting Principles for Systems-of-Systems
A system-of-system:
Its components fulfilled valid purposes on their own right and continued to operate to fulfill these purposes if disassembled from the overall system
The components systems are managed (at leas a part) for their own purposes rather than their purposes of the whole
Stable intermediate forms, policy triage, leverage at the interfaces, ensuring cooperation
What is the main message of: Information security management needs more holistic approach
Information security issues should be considered as a responsibility of management, as it has an impact on the market position of the firm.
Management participation from top level management, HRM, security policy development and execution, information awareness and training, involvement of strategic decision makers
What is the main message of: Dietz - The deep structure of business processes
LAP is the essential model that shows in a very concise from some interesting things about the construction and operation of the organization and provides an ideal starting point for discussing operational problems and suggesting solutions
The core of organization is in the coordination processes (the entering into and complying with commitments) and not the production processes
What is the main message of: From computer ethics to responsible research and innovation in ICT
ICTs have the potential to play a critical role in addressing societal challenges but doing so successfully requires a detailed understanding of both the technical capabilities and the socio-technical practices that shape the role of ICT in society. IS can thus play a key role in addressing the challenges of modern societies. Both society and IS as a discipline would benefit from a willingness and ability of IS scholars to accept this challenge.
What is the main message of: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Business Processes and Business Process Modelling
It is increasingly common to describe organizations as sets of business processes that can be analyzed and improved by approaches such as business process modelling. Business processes as: - Deterministic machines - Dynamic systems - Interacting feedback loops - Social constructs
