A new paradigm is sweeping the society, organisations and the business environment. In fact, society and business world alike are moving from its tangible bases to intangible ones based on knowledge and information systems (IS) to support its management, use and sharing. In this emerging paradigm, terms like information, communication, knowledge, and learning have acquired a critical relevance to the understanding of the nature of contemporary business. This led authors such as Drucker (1993) to state that “we are entering the knowledge society in which the basic economic resource… is knowledge”.
IS in Practice, Technology Infrastructures and Organisational Processes
– Power, Cultural, Behavioural and Political issues
– New Organisational Forms
– Dilution of Organisational Boundaries
– The centrality of IS and IT in Organisational Processes
– IS Management
– Information Management
– Knowledge Management
– IS and SMEs
– Innovation and IS
– Innovation and Knowledge Management
– IS and Change Management
– IS and Organisation Development
– Enterprise Application Integration
– Enterprise Resource Planning
– Business Process ChangeIS Design, Development and Management Issues and Methodologies
– Design and Development Methodologies and Frameworks
– Iterative and Incremental Methodologies
– Agile Methodologies
– IS Design and Development as a Component-Based Process
– IS Design and Development as Social Negotiation Process
– IS D Design and Development as a Global and Distributed Process
– Outsourcing in IS
– Outsourcing Risks, Barriers and Opportunities
– IS Project Management
– IS Quality Management and Assurance
– IS Standards and Compliance Issues
– Risk Management in IS
– Risk Management in IS Design and DevelopmentIS Professional Issues
– Ethical, social, privacy, security and moral issues in an e-society
– The role of information in the information society
– Myths, taboos and misconceptions in IS
– Practitioner and Research Relationship, Projects and Links
– Validity, Usefulness and Applicability of IS Academic Research
– Industrial Research versus Academic Research Issues
– Industry Innovation and Leadership and Academic Laggards
– IS consultancy as a profession
– Organisational IS Roles
– Communities of practice and Knowledge SharingIS Learning and Teaching
– Patterns of Demand for IS Teaching Provision
– Fads, Fashions and Fetishes in IS Curricula
– Pedagogic practice in Teaching IS
– E-Learning in IS
– Instructional Design for IS
– National Cultures and Approaches to Pedagogy
– Multiculturality and Diversity Issues in IS Learning and TeachingIS Research
– Core Theories, Conceptualisations and Paradigms in IS Research
– Ontological Assumptions in IS Research
– IS Research Constraints, Limitations and Opportunities
– IS vs Computer Science Research
– IS vs Business Studies
– Positivist, Interpretivist and Critical Approaches to IS Research
– Quantitative vs. Qualitative Methods
– Deductive vs Inductive Approaches
– Multi-method Approaches and Triangulations in IS Research
– Design Research and the Sciences of the Artificial in IS
– Multidisciplinary Views and Multi Methodological Approaches
– New and alternative approaches to IS research
– Examples of experimental research designs in IS