A Handbook for Information Systems in the 21st Century
Perhaps the most compelling observations of the Externalization trend comes from Professor Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas Sate University. He created the now famous “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us.” movie which was posted on YouTube:
Here’s a link to a rather unpolished movie of Michael Wesch explaining ‘The Machine Is Us’. Badly shot and unedited but worth a quick viewing... Continue reading
Below is an excerpt from a post on the Capgemini CTO blog by Carl Bate. I think it’s a good summary of what we mean by Externalization …
“The second IT revolution is already happening -of course it really started with the Web - and perhaps is best formalised now in industry terms through the Software as a Service model.
But this alone describes a ‘how’ and doesn’t really express the... Continue reading
VPEC-T is more a philosophy than methodology. Think of it a communications and decsion-making aid rather than a prescriptive methodology.
Carl and I are regularly hearing ideas for VPEC-T based tools and methodologies from by practitioners and will post information about them if/when they becomes more concrete Continue reading
Please watch the slideshow here for a introduction to VPEC-T and download chapter one of LiT Continue reading
During a discussion last night, a friend of mine sparked of a thought when he wondered if the VPEC-T dimensions, or something like them, are used by conflict negotiators working on such challenges as the Middle East peace talks. This got me thinking about the fundamental need to understand and then resolve or live-with Value Systems differences in any Information System. This seems obvious and intuitive when we think about a ‘Peace... Continue reading
One thing I see as a recurring pattern of success in organisations that ‘make a market’ - and indeed that start out as new or transform themselves in the process - is how they understand the difference between ‘change’ and ‘adoption’.
Change… to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: to change one’s name... Continue reading