Informatisches Kolloquium Wintersemester 2009/2010

Montag, 8. Februar 2010
um 17 Uhr c.t.
Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30
Konrad-Zuse-Hörsaal
Gebäude B

Responsibility Modelling: Why and how

Prof. John Dobson
Emeritus Professor of Information Management
Newcastle University, UK

Any information system will have embedded within it a number of implicit organisational policies, or assumptions about how the organisation behaves. When organisational change occurs and a new information system is created, these implicit policies and assumptions should be re-examined to see whether they are still appropriate. Unfortunately, system analysts and designers often study only the explicit aspects of what people do, and thereby miss the implicit assumptions behind why they are doing it.

We suggest that looking at people's responsibilities rather than their actions is a more effective way of re-examining these implicit policies and assumptions. Over a number of years, we have developed and used a way of doing this systematically, based on the soft systems methodology of Checkland. We shall outline the approach and describe how it has been used in a number of real-life case studies.

Kontakt

Prof. Dr. Ingrid Schirmer
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