[AISWorld] IJITSA's 6(2) ToC

Fri Aug 9 13:24:54 EDT 2013

The contents of the latest issue of:
International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach
(IJITSA)
Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association
Volume 6, Issue 2, July-December 2013
Published: Semi-Annually in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1935-570X EISSN: 1935-5718
Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
www.igi-global.com/ijitsa

Editors-in-Chief: Frank Stowell, University of Portsmouth, UK; and Manuel
Mora, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, México

PAPER ONE

Change Management: The Need for a Systems Approach

Harry Kogetsidis (School of Business, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus)

The rate with which change occurs has increased dramatically over the
years. At the same time, the change management literature is full of
claims about the high failure rate of change implementation programmes in
organisations. In this position paper a case is made that change
initiatives frequently fail because they are not holistic in nature. The
paper argues that change can be managed more effectively if the various
interconnected and interacting elements of the system are identified, the
divergent interests of the various stakeholders are recognised, and the
entire change process is managed systemically. As the failures of change
efforts are commonly related to human issues, as opposed to technical
factors, involving all stakeholders in the change process is expected to
reduce resistance and to create a higher level of psychological commitment
among employees towards the proposed change. The paper then looks into the
implications that this holistic way of thinking has for information
systems development and argues that information systems should not be
implemented as a means to solving a problem but instead be treated as a
significant tool to help address a complex mix of organisational issues.
Information system strategy must be in line with the organizations’
corporate strategic plan and information systems must be related to a
continually changing organisational context and a turbulent business
environment.

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http://www.igi-global.com/article/change-management/78903

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/change-management/78903

PAPER TWO

Human Supervision of Automated Systems and the Implications of Double Loop
Learning

A.S. White (School of Engineering and Information Sciences, Middlesex
University, The Burroughs, Hendon, London, UK)

This paper describes the problem of human monitoring of automation. It
considers the approaches involved in mental models and compares the ideas
involved in double loop learning. The approaches are collected together
with limited experimental experience to form a more complete model of the
learning model involved in developing human control with proposed
strategies for development.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/human-supervision-of-automated-systems-and-the-implications-of-double-loop-learning/78904

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=78904

PAPER THREE

On the Suitability of Soft Systems Methodology and the Work System Method
in Some Software Project Contexts

Doncho Petkov (Department of Business Administration, Eastern Connecticut
State University, Willimantic, CT, USA), Steven Alter (School of
Management, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA), Olga
Petkova (Department of Management Information Systems, Central Connecticut
State University, New Britain, CT, USA) and Theo Andrew (Faculty of
Engineering and the Built Environment, Durban University of Technology,
Durban, South Africa)

This paper proposes the use of the System of Systems Methodologies (SOSM)
framework by Jackson and Keys for mapping of diverse software project
contexts analyzed previously in the software development literature. In
addition it presents an evaluation of the suitability of Soft Systems
Methodology by Checkland and the Work System Method by Alter for those
specific situations within SOSM. Thus we extend the work by Bustard and
Keenan and by Alter and Browne on software project contexts that may lead
to better tailoring of software development processes by mixing methods
within a particular project.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/on-the-suitability-of-soft-systems-methodology-and-the-work-system-method-in-some-software-project-contexts/78905

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=78905

PAPER FOUR

A Semiosis Model of the Natures and Relationships among Categories of
Information in IS

Tuan M. Nguyen (Department of Management Information Systems, School of
Industrial Management, HCMC University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam) and Huy V. Vo (Department of Management Information Systems,
School of Industrial Management, HCMC University of Technology, Ho Chi
Minh City, Vietnam)

The paper explores, in a semiotics approach, the natures and the
relationships between the category of information and its relatives that
are data and knowledge. The resultant process model makes clear both the
evolutionary natures and the triadic relation among the information
categories. In addition, drawn on Peirce’s theory of inquiry which
stresses the role of community along the inquiring process, a central
thesis of the paper is the pragmatic model of information formulation in
the information systems field.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/a-semiosis-model-of-the-natures-and-relationships-among-categories-of-information-in-is/78906

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=78906

INTERVIEW

Peter Checkland Interview

Frank Stowell (School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth,
England, UK)

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/peter-checkland-interview/78907

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=78907&ptid=71645&t=Peter%20Checkland%20Interview

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International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach
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Mission of IJITSA:

The International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach
(IJITSA) is an academic and practitioner journal created to disseminate
and discuss high quality research results on information systems and
related upper and lower level systems as well as on its interactions with
software engineering, systems engineering, complex systems and philosophy
of systems sciences issues, through rigorous theoretical, modeling,
engineering or behavioral studies in order to explore, describe, explain,
predict, design, control, evaluate, interpret, intervene and/or develop
organizational systems where information systems are the main objects of
study and the systems approach – any variant –is the main research method
and philosophical stance used.

Coverage of IJITSA:

Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to)
the following:

•	Systemic studies on the diverse types of IS (TPS, MIS, OAS, DMSS, KBS,
KMS, IS, ERP, EIS, IOS, BPIS, among others)
•	Systemic studies on the diverse types of IT organizational settings
(personal computing, home-based computing, end-user computing,  office
computing,  corporative computing, inter-organizational computing)
•	IT-based system systemic design methodologies
•	IT-based system systemic evaluation methodologies
•	IT-based system systemic implementation methodologies
•	Systemic evaluation and review of IT (technologies, tools, technological
trends)
•	International standards and models for IT-based systems and its
relations with systems approach
•	Systemic innovative IT-based systems studies addressing real problems
•	Challenges and ill-structured worldwide problems linked to IT-based
systems from a systems approach view (green IT, national security, human
rights, global education, mobile education, global economy,  interaction
between developed and developing organizations, e-digital gap,  service
systems,  cultural differences, among others)
•	Systemic frameworks, models, and theories for engineering issues for
IT-based systems
•	Systemic frameworks, models, and theories for managerial issues for
IT-based systems
•	Systemic frameworks, models, and theories for organizational issues for
IT-based systems
•	Interdisciplinary systemic relevant themes from information systems and
software-systems engineering
•	Interdisciplinary systemic relevant themes from information systems and
complex systems
•	Systems methodologies for basic and applied research
•	Systems methodologies for consulting activities
•	IT curriculum systemic studies on undergraduate and graduate programs
•	IT systemic studies on accreditation undergraduate and graduate programs
•	IT systemic studies on Faculty issues (tenure promotions, profile of
PhDs, types of institutions (research-oriented vs teaching-oriented ones)
•	Multi-method systemic research methods to study IT-based systems
•	Debates on research methods and systems approach for IT-based systems
•	Philosophical themes related with research methods and systems science
for IT-based systems

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