Course: Understanding Information and Technology Today

Soft methods, in contrast with the hard ones, leave some space for interpretation. This does not mean that soft methods are completely arbitrary; they have varying degree of standardisation. For …

Portals are some of the relatively new items on the palette of organisational information systems. So much so, that we don’t even have a definition of portals in general. We …

Viktor Dörfler introduces this week’s topics and activities.

“It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” – said Steve Jobs about design to the New York Times. This week is the …

We need to collaborate to accomplish almost anything. If this is how we work, this is what our IS needs to support. Recently there has been incredible development in this …

In this step, we have collated an extensive list of readings for this week’s topic. At the beginning of the list, you will find links to online sources, such as …

‘Actionability’ simply means that the IS/ICT does something. In itself this sounds like a trivial expectation. However, making it happen may be less trivial. What is certain is that this …

Integration in the world of information systems always seems to be what comes last. ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems still do not really manage to get this appropriately done. But …

It would be trivial to say that we want fresh information. In fact, freshness is one of the most important characteristics when we judge how good an IS is. However, …

More and more people have strong feelings about personalising their devices. A few years ago, when you mentioned the word personalisation to a layperson, they would think about a colour …

In a holistic view, that is if we believe that all things are connected, we can easily end up concluding that everything is relevant to whatever we do. This may …

In short, this week we learn about what good information system (IS) and information-communication technology (ICT) are like. Of course, for this it would be good to achieve some clarity …

Viktor Dörfler introduces this week’s topics and activities.

In this video Viktor Dörfler discusses ‘Piracy’ with Iain Moir and Isi Osagie. It is commonplace nowadays that we face ever-increasing piracy, piracy which uses highly sophisticated technology. However, I …