scholarly journals Exploring the Role of Academia in Nurturing IT-Enabled Business Change

10.28945/2699 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe McDonagh ◽  
David Coghlan
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Organization Development ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Work Organizations ◽  
Business Change ◽  
Occupational Communities

Throughout much of the last five decades the process of introducing, integrating, and exploiting information technology in work organizations has posed formidable challenges regularly resulting in reports of significant underperformance and failure. On closer inquiry it emerges that such underperformance and failure are firmly rooted in an inability to foster a highly integrated approach to the management of IT-enabled business change. This paper critiques in detail both the enduring and deep-rooted nature of this dilemma paying particular attention to the role of diverse occupational communities in its perpetuation through time. Furthermore, it explicates the polarized patterns of cognition and action embedded in these communities paying particular attention to the executive, information technology, and organization development communities. Finally, it presents a robust critique of the manner in which academic formation within these occupational communities firmly reinforces such polarized patterns of behaviour thereby sustaining the enduring dilemma with IT-enabled business change.

Surfacing Occupational Threats to IT-Enabled Change

2011 ◽  
pp. 179-191
Author(s):  
Joe McDonagh
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Executive Management ◽  
Occupational Groups ◽  
It Investments ◽  
Business Press ◽  
Economic Imperative ◽  
Over Time

While the business press is awash with claims that investing in information technology (IT) is the key to delivering superior economic performance, unfortunately, it appears that reaping the benefits of IT investments is fraught with difficulty. Indeed, the introduction of IT into work organisations is generally marred with persistent reports of underperformance and failure. This chapter critiques the nature of this dilemma and, in particular, explores the role of diverse occupational groups in its perpetuation over time. Executive management tend to view the introduction of IT as an economic imperative while IT specialists tend to view it as a technical imperative. The coalescent nature of these two imperatives is such that the human and organisational aspects of IT related change are frequently marginalized and ignored. Achieving a more integrated approach to the introduction of IT is inordinately difficult since the narrow perspectives embraced by the executive and IT communities do not naturally attend to change in an integrated manner.

Investigating the Dynamics of IT-Enabled Change

2011 ◽  
pp. 103-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe McDonagh
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Work Organizations ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Poor Outcomes

Since the 1950s the process of introducing information technology (IT) into work organizations has posed formidable challenges all too frequently resulting in reports of significant underperformance and failure. On closer inquiry it emerges that such poor outcomes are due, in no small way, to a distinct inability to effect an integrated approach to change, an approach that concurrently attends to economic, technical, human, and organizational facets of change. Considering that extant research fails to adequately address this enduring dilemma, this chapter acknowledges weaknesses in dominant positivist approaches to inquiry and establishes the case for a more collaborative approach to inquiry, an approach that is firmly embedded in the post positivist tradition. In particular, the case for one such collaborative approach, clinical inquiry, as a legitimate and profoundly important research approach to investigating the dynamics of IT-enabled change is presented.

scholarly journals The Role of Alfred J. Marrow and the Harwood Manufacturing Corporation in the Advancement of OD

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-427
Author(s):  
Bernard Burnes
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Organization Development ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Kurt Lewin ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Independent Existence

The Harwood Manufacturing Corporation began its life in the garment-trade sweatshops of New York at the end of the 19th century and ended its independent existence in the sweatshops of Honduras and Costa Rica at the end of the 20th century. In between, under the influence of Kurt Lewin and Alfred J. Marrow, it became seen as a beacon of progressive management: the place where the values, tools, and philosophy of the Organization Development (OD) movement were trialed, extended, and established. Harwood laid the foundations of the group-orientated OD that emerged in the 1950s and shaped the more system-wide and integrated approach to OD that came to the fore in the 1970s. As such, it left a lasting legacy that has been institutionalized in current OD practices and values.

The Effect of Information Technology on Fluidity of Contemporary Architectural Space

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-72
Author(s):  
Shatha Abbas Hassan ◽  
Noor Ali Aljorani
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Ease Of Access ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Role Of Information

The increasing importance of the information revolution and terms such as ‘speed’, ‘disorientation’, and ‘changing the concept of distance’, has provided us with tools that had not been previously available. Technological developments are moving toward Fluidity, which was previously unknown and cannot be understood through modern tools. With acceleration of the rhythm in the age we live in and the clarity of the role of information technology in our lives, as also the ease of access to information, has helped us to overcome many difficulties. Technology in all its forms has had a clear impact on all areas of daily life, and it has a clear impact on human thought in general, and the architectural space in particular, where the architecture moves from narrow spaces and is limited to new spaces known as the ‘breadth’, and forms of unlimited and stability to spaces characterized with fluidity. The research problem (the lack of clarity of knowledge about the impact of vast information flow associated with the technology of the age in the occurrence of liquidity in contemporary architectural space) is presented here. The research aims at defining fluidity and clarifying the effect of information technology on the changing characteristics of architectural space from solidity to fluidity. The research follows the analytical approach in tracking the concept of fluidity in physics and sociology to define this concept and then to explain the effect of Information Technology (IT) to achieve the fluidity of contemporary architectural space, leading to an analysis of the Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) architectural model. The research concludes that information technology achieves fluidity through various tools (communication systems, computers, automation, and artificial intelligence). It has changed the characteristics of contemporary architectural space and made it behave like an organism, through using smart material.

Peningkatan Teknologi Informasi Melalui Supervisi Pendidikan

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rika ramadani ◽  
Hade Afriansyah
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Information Technology Education ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Ongoing Training ◽  
The World ◽  
Teacher Supervisors

Progress in information technology that is so fast is expected to improve the quality of education in Indonesia. In the world of information technology education can help and support the learning process. Especially now all the learning process activities can be done online. Progress in information technology must also be supported by quality human resources. In this case the teacher is very instrumental in the utilization of information technology in the world of education. Because the teacher is one of the education supervisors who will encourage the advancement of the quality of education in Indonesia. But in reality the quality of teachers in Indonesia is inadequate. There are still many teachers who cannot use information technology in learning especially for teachers who are senior or old. As teacher supervisors, they must improve the quality of their performance in using technology. To improve the ability of teachers to use technology, ongoing training is needed to use technology. The role of the head of the school as a supervisor is also needed, namely the principal is obliged to supervise, control, and approach the teacher in terms of the use of technology in the learning process.

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