Toward an Interdisciplinary Engineering and Management of Complex IT-Intensive Organizational Systems: A Systems View


Por: Mora, M., Gelman, O., Frank, M., Paradice, D.B., Cervantes, F., Forgionne, G.A.

Publicada: 1 ene 2008
Resumen:
An accelerated scientific, engineering, and industrial progress in information technologies has fostered the deployment of Complex Information Technology (highly dependent) Organizational Systems (CITOS). The benefits have been so strong that CITOS have proliferated in a variety of large and midsized organizations to support various generic intra-organizational processes and inter-organizational activities. But their systems engineering, management, and research complexity have been substantially raised in the last decade, and the CITOS realization is presenting new technical, organizational, management, and research challenges. In this article, we use a conceptual research method to review the engineering, management, and research complexity issues raised for CITOS, and develop the rationality of the following propositions: P1: a plausible response to cope with CITOS is an interdisciplinary engineering and management body of knowledge; and P2: such a realization is plausible through the incorporation of foundations, principles, methods, tools, and best practices from the systems approach by way of systems engineering and software engineering disciplines. Discussion of first benefits, critical barriers, and effectiveness measures to reach this academic proposal are presented. © 2008, IGI Global. All rights reserved.

Filiaciones:
Mora, M.:
 Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico

Gelman, O.:
 CCADET, Universidad Nacional Autonoma, Mexico

Frank, M.:
 Holon Institute of Technology, Israel

Paradice, D.B.:
 Florida State University, United States

Cervantes, F.:
 Universidad Nacional Autnoma, Center for Open University, Mexico

Forgionne, G.A.:
 University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States
ISSN: 1935570X





International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach
Editorial
IGI Global, 701 E CHOCOLATE AVE, STE 200, HERSHEY, PA 17033-1240 USA, Estados Unidos America
Tipo de documento: Article
Volumen: 1 Número: 1
Páginas: 1-24